<p>BC at #31? i like it. wouldn’t be surprised to see BC in the top 25 at some point down the road. Georgetown and Notre Dame- you’ve been warned. like i said, that’s down the road though. first i think BC will overtake Umich and UNC, as publics continue to fall. then BC will jump tufts. A LOT of people on this board don’t like BC, and compare it to schools in the 40s. well now it’s getting the recognition it rightfully deserves.</p>
<p>Columbia is higher because when BHO was elected President, applications skyrocketed, e.g., the Flute effect is alive and well in Harlem.</p>
<p>see what i mean? the flutie effect! dude’s taking shots at BC. the real reason applications skyrocketed at BC is because people realized, “hey, boston college has a gorgeous campus and offers top-notch academics. maybe i should apply there. oh and there football team is pretty cool too.”</p>
<p>Gainers
+5 UC-Irvine
+4 Columbia
+3 USC, Wake Forest, Boston College, UC-Davis, UC-Santa Barbara, and U of Miami
+2 Dartmouth, Georgetown, William & Mary, and U of Texas
+1 Duke, Johns Hopkins, Brown, Notre Dame, RPI, and Washington </p>
<p>Losers
-8 U of Illinois -UC
-6 Wisconsin, Florida
-3 Brandeis, MIT, Cal Tech, Emory
-2 Rochester, Lehigh, UNC, Michigan
-1 Princeton, Stanford, Penn, Chicago, WashU, Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon, UCLA, UVA, NYU, and Tulane. </p>
<p>Solid Unis
Harvard, Yale, Northwestern, Cornell, Rice, Vanderbilt, Tufts, Georgia Tech, UC-San Diego, Case Western, and Penn State.</p>
<p>Anyone have access to PA scores? Please post.</p>
<p>I didn’t mean to disparage BC at all, and I’m from Boston and love the graduates, whom I would rather have on my team any day than the idiots in the PRC (People’s Republic of Cambridge, for the uninitiated). I do think, however, that BHO had something to do with what’s happening in Harlem.</p>
<p>Top Catholic schools did well. Holy Cross moves up 4 spots in National Liberal Arts, ND, Georgetown, and Boston College did better in National University category.</p>
<p>Did I say that? For those who never believed UCLA should have ever been in the top 25, I say it’s a good school, although I wouldn’t put it ahead of Tufts, Michigan, UVA or UNC, which I believe are better academically. That said, it has great graduate programs, and is in a lovely area of Los Angeles, if you are lucky enough to get on-campus housing. I hear the parking spots there are harder to get than housing, however. But they have a parking lottery, so that mitigates things somewhat.</p>
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<p>For one, these numbers are for fall 2009, which means students applying from August 2008 to December 2008/January 2009. ED applications were already due by election night, and most people had finalized their RD lists. </p>
<p>For another, Columbia saw no greater jump than most of its peers. Applications went up 12.6% from the class of 2012 to the class of 2013, less than Yale (13.6%) and Dartmouth (15.5%). Most of the other elites also saw a jump in that range.</p>
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<p>You can expect a giant asterisk to appear to explain how Columbia vaulted by Stanford.
USNews won’t be able to dismiss the issue they created by miscalculating the new PA for Stanford.</p>
<p>i know bostontw it’s all good. and i wonder if Occidental college had any sort of Barry Hussein induced rise</p>
<p>I’ve always wondered why Georgetown, a school whose acceptance rate is 10% lower than the school above it in the rankings, continues to hover around the 20 mark and not higher.</p>
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<p>You obviously don’t know anything about UCLA, so as fallenchemist would say, “just stop right there,” lol…</p>
<p>UCLA in CA has the most bar-certified attys. 737 UCLA undergrads applied to med school in 2009, which is near the top at least, see aamc.org.</p>
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<p>You’re obviously out of the loop wrt the newer dorms at UCLA. It isn’t your primarily “commuter” school any more.</p>
<p>And as bad as the administration is at UCLA, at least they stick to their guns more than the pub-seeking antics of USC. Work those variables, USC. ANd yea, to the hs counselors, which had USC higher.</p>
<p>Could someone post where WFU ranked in undergrad business?</p>
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<p>“Schools in the National Universities category… offer a full range of undergraduate majors, master’s, and doctoral degrees. These colleges also are committed to producing groundbreaking research.”</p>
<p>Lack of “groundbreaking research,” and anti-religious sentiment.</p>
<p>There are a couple of threads going here:</p>
<p>Best Undergrad Teaching for colleges:</p>
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<p>Hopefully the admins collapse these threads. Hi.</p>
<p>And Best Undergrad Teaching for Universities:</p>
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<p>the WASP establishment hates georgetown, notre dame and BC. they should all be higher. yes BC made a huge jump to 31, but i want more.</p>
<p>Emory got shafted. the south is now
- Duke
- Rice/Vandy
- Emory
- UVA/Wake</p>
<p>Few points for those who got problem with Northwestern’s rank:</p>
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<li>it’s not Northwestern’s fault that there are five other schools ahead of Cornell.</li>
<li>this is the fifth time NU is ranked in the top-10, not the first (96, 97, 98, 02). </li>
<li>this year, Northwestern was #1 in terms of:
of Fulbright scholars
of Goldwater winners (tied with MIT/Rice)
of grads going to Teach for America (among mid-sized institutions)</li>
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