<p>Its coming out this august 18, i think. where do u think your college will rank and why? mine is University of Maryland- College Park.
<p>I f ucking hate ratings. I really, really do. I especially hate that everyone around here obsesses about them and that we have prediction threads for ratings that no one outside of CC ever actually cares about.</p>
<p>ratings don’t mean **** to me anymore…UCLA will always be #1 in my heart</p>
<p>[listening to that Queen song]</p>
<p>Yeah. Seriously, ratings don’t matter. I don’t understand why people don’t just do their own things and move on with their lives. Who cares if some publication (with crappy methods) says some other school across the country is rated 3 spots higher than your school. It doesn’t affect my life at all.</p>
<p>Yes, I agree with allie’s sentiment on this one. However, they can serve to be informative guidelines. Emphasis on the can, of course.</p>
<p>yes they can</p>
<p>i love rankings and ratings actually.
well only if it’s been ranked using a very througholy researched methodology.
It gives you a big picture on how the school is when you have no idea what school you want to go.
It gives you good picture on how the students think about their school, how the academics are, how the faculty thinks about the school, job placement, school environment, student happiness level, and lots of other factors significant to the school.
If you do know where you’ll attend, then it may be totally useless.
Plus it’s just fun to watch it.
Just like how people love to hear what the #1 song for this week is.
And it’s a double fun when you get to see your own school climbing up rank chart.</p>
<p>I think that USC would have climbed by a number or two, and may be placed in either 29 or 28. And somehow, I think UCLA’s ranking didn’t change at all (#25). And UC San diego may have climbed by 2 or 3, and may finally become one of teh top 30s.</p>
<p>*Some people even think that UCSD will beat UCLA within 20 years, in terms of ranking. </p>
<p>well, that’s just my thought.</p>
<p>DHL- YOU love rankings? NO WAI! I never woulda guessed. </p>
<p>/Sorry. But based on previous discussions…I was just waiting for your ratings love. I knew it was coming.</p>
<p>Harvard will be number 1. Or maybe Yale…, but probably harvard…</p>
<p>That is all.</p>
<p>allie: you are only supposed to use “NO WAI” after the usage of O RLY followed by YA RLY</p>
<p>I changed the rules.</p>
<p>I am teh intranet rebel.</p>
<p>allie… FTW</p>
<p>Yes, rules are made to be broken, after all.</p>
<p>what’s wrong with loving ratings?</p>
<p>Especially when they’re not really even rules and are based on a months old internet cliche. </p>
<p>/jaded.</p>
<p>lol back to the topic plz. many of u r from ucla, where do u think it will rank for 07?</p>
<p>Nothing. I just think it’s silly and pointless to obsess over them the way some people around here do. </p>
<p>I know that you’re trying to eventually get a job with a company to whom a school’s rank might actually matter. But for the vast majority, employers REALLY don’t care if your school was #1 or #30. They just want to see what you did once you were there. So I think it’s stupid to fret and predict and obsess over numbers that are dictated by some COMPANY who gets tons of money to publish them when no one in the real world actually cares.</p>
<p>ur right allie, but many care, and college pay attentuion to them because they determine applicants to that school. its a shame though, but its life</p>
<p>Actually employers do care about how prestigious the school is.
Why do you think schools such as Harvard, Wharton, and Haas attract so many top-level business firms?</p>
<p>EDIT: and also, why do you think people who graduated from top business schools generally gets paid higher starting salary than those who graduated from the 2nd-class school? Is it because all Harvard Graduates gets better GPA than the others? </p>
<p>If you think about all these questions, the answer will lead to one thing: PRESTIGE.</p>
<p>Employers, IN SOME FIELDS (like yours), care. But I promise that NO ONE will turn me down with a degree from UCLA because it’s #20something. We’ve definitely had this discussion before- I’m not gunna start it again. But I think that you have a very narrow perspective. Most people do not go to Harvard and Wharton and lots of people excel without them. That’s all.</p>