<p>Believe me, I don’t care about this as much as you do so you can cite the student newspapers of every top 20 school if you want.</p>
<p>And Columbia has every right to celebrate and publish their climb. Michigan is being cheesy because they’re publishing a drop of 2 spots. Sour grapes? I don’t know…their call.</p>
<p>It is the job of newspapers of any type to publish stories while they are still “news”, and since this is the University paper, it would be rather surprising if they didn’t publish a story about something concerning the university. Whatever any of us think of the whole rating phenomenon (and you all know what I think of it), it is absolutely news. One story said that a survey of students claimed that something like 40% said that ratings were important in their decision about where to go. Now that could be taken a lot of different ways, but in the end it definitely means it is worthy of reporting. They would probably report it if it stayed the same, but it would be bizarre if, in reporting it, they didn’t accurately report that they dropped two spots and why.</p>
<p>You are, of course, welcome to your opinion London, but I think you are overreacting to the story and a bit off base on this one.</p>
<p>What the world needs now…is love and chill pills.</p>
<p>“And Columbia has every right to celebrate and publish their climb. Michigan is being cheesy because they’re publishing a drop of 2 spots. Sour grapes? I don’t know…their call.”</p>
<p>OIC. So it’s OK only to report the news you like to hear, but not the news you don’t. I understand where you are coming from now, DUDE.</p>
<p>Here’s another “sour grapes” article published on 8/16/10:</p>
<p>[Princeton</a> drops behind Harvard in U.S. News rankings - The Daily Princetonian](<a href=“http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2010/08/16/26201/]Princeton”>http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2010/08/16/26201/)</p>
<p>…love and chill pills.</p>
<p>Your repeated use of “DUDE” shows how crude and tasteless you are in speech. Your attempt to mock me needless to say, does not work.</p>
<p>“OIC. So it’s OK only to report the news you like to hear, but not the news you don’t. I understand where you are coming from now, DUDE.
rjkofnovi is offline” </p>
<p>I know you lack reading comprehension but you should read my post over and over again until it marinates in your head. Columbia is exciting news to me simply because my parents went there so I have as much love for the school as I do for my own school. But I never made it about who I’d like to hear vs. who I don’t. And Princeton only dropped by one point. From my reading, they weren’t exhibiting sour grapes; rather a difference in their ranking history. With the new methodology, everyone including “Mary Sue-Coleman” knew publics like Michigan would drop so I don’t understand what the fuss is about.</p>
<p>You can ■■■■■ for schools like Michigan however you wish. Just don’t twist my words and try to make it out to something I didn’t mean. If you can’t fully comprehend my post, ask me again.</p>
<p>Oh, I give up. Where is the love?</p>
<p>“Dude I couldn’t care less about their ranking nor the U of Michigan”</p>
<p>These are your words. I was just reminding you how silly certain words come across to others.</p>
<p>If you didn’t mean “cheesy” then you wouldn’t have said it. Got it now, "dude?'</p>
<p>re#1492,
I don’t know what year that data was supposed to be from, but for 2009-2010 cornell’s aggregate acceptance rate was 19%, and its reported data for matriculating freshman
(NOT admitted students) showed a mid-range of 1290-1500, 86% top tenth, 98% top quarter. However, only 34% had a reported class rank. Many schools don’t report this anymore. Grades without context of class rank don’t mean very much, IMO. All of this is on its CDS.</p>
<p>However this is just aggregate data across the university as a whole, applicants to individual colleges of multi-college universities such as Cornell and Berkeley should look to the data for the individual colleges at these universitites that they are actually applying to if they want to more accurately assess where they stack up.</p>
<p>"Here’s another “sour grapes” article published on 8/16/10:</p>
<p>Princeton drops behind Harvard in U.S. News rankings - The Daily Princetonian"</p>
<p>You’re not strengthening your argument by bringing up these links. You’re resorting to fluff than reason.</p>
<p>Try reading the comments section after the article…</p>
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<p>So what? Those are equally stupid, too.</p>
<p>Hey, XU has a great retention rate, but it’s not on any of these lists. Like I’ve been saying, as long as you find a good fit for you, it shouldn’t matter what “rankings” a school has or how well known it is. What matters is happiness. And love.</p>
<p>I’m not going to read anything because like I said, I don’t care about this as much as you do. Good luck rjkofnovi with YOUR OWN college or post-college endeavors</p>
<p>Same to you. See, I can be civil too. :-)</p>
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<p>Oh, please stop with the pretentious nonsense that there are real differences between any of these student bodies listed above. Really. If the student bodies of any of these universities were interchanged tomorrow, no one would notice a difference.</p>
<p>Huzzah, pizzagirl.</p>
<p>bmanbs2, #1500:</p>
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<p>Theres some element of truth to this…</p>
<p>One being the cant serve two masters idea: </p>
<p>UC is set up as being one master, with essentially day classes and a huge discouragement to work; CSU has night classes, flexible scheds and a bunch of part-timers.</p>
<p>Theres been a spike upward of family income for Cal and undoubtedly now, UCLA. UCLA used to have the highest family income at a little > $100K, when all UCs had > 90+% instaters. And thats really not that much… But with both schools (all UCs) trying to enroll more non-residents, that median will rise. I believe non-residents come from families closer to around $150k, but at elite privates that still wouldnt compare.</p>
<p>But then again, there are plenty of poor students who work concurrently, some as much as 40 hours, while attending UC, to the obvious detriment of their grades. By doing so, theyre probably killing whatever chance they have at a top-notch grad school. It isnt fair, but maybe a lot those who have to work should really attend a CSU. More vocations there also.</p>
<p>Ok, seeing all this UC stuff on CC confuses me sometimes. I come from Cincinnati, where UC is the University of Cincinnati and Miami refers to the university in Oxford, Ohio, not the one in Florida. >_<</p>