USC is tied w/Berkeley & Penn

Colleges & Universities University of Southern California
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<p>as the 31st smartest colleges in America. </p>

<p>[Did</a> Your School Make The Cut? Here Are The 50 ‘Smartest Colleges In America’ | Elite Daily](<a href=“http://elitedaily.com/news/world/lumositys-smartest-colleges-america-list-full-head-scratchers/]Did”>Did Your School Make The Cut? Here Are The 50 'Smartest Colleges In America')</p>

<p>UCLA didn’t make the cut.</p>

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<p>Like the article says:</p>

<p>“Maybe the students at the unnamed institutions were just spending their time doing things other than playing games on Lumosity.”</p>

<p>You know…schools like UCLA and Cal Tech</p>

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<p>UCLA is ranked 61…</p>

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“Some have also expressed concern that some prominent schools such as Caltech were missing from our analysis. We have chosen to set a minimum cutoff of at least 50 users for all universities included in the survey. As a school with fewer than 1,000 undergraduates, it is not surprising that Caltech was unable to reach our threshold.”</p>

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…tied with UC Irvine, Madison, & Kansas</p>

<p>The breakdown is very interesting:
<a href=“http://blog.lumosity.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/SmartestColleges2013_white-paper.pdf[/url]”>http://blog.lumosity.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/SmartestColleges2013_white-paper.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>SicilianDefense, I can’t tell if you’re trying to applaud USC or ridicule them.
As a USC student, I personally don’t care if we beat UCLA in a list that ranks colleges based on the performance of their students in a video game. I understand its a brain game, but seriously… I would hope that we have better things to do. </p>

<p>Any list that puts UCSD over Columbia in terms of intelligence is a ranking that holds questionable credibility imo (no disrespect to UCSD).</p>

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<p>I took a peek, and my own alma mater is in the top five. Still, the test criteria is a bit bogus even though I know that campus to be filled with students considered at the top of their “game” so to speak. </p>

<p>I think, what counts in the end, is not some corporation trying to use studies such as this to boost their own visibility and profits, but the measure of the college itself, how it serves the students in reaching their maximum potential, and what those students are able to do with the resources once on campus.</p>

<p>If our family’s experience with USC is any indication then it ranks up there with mine. i.e. amazing college filled with very smart, highly motivated students. Students who are devoted to doing more worthwhile things with their brains than to play Luminosity.</p>

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<p>So UCLA didn’t make the top 50 in a college ranking based on a video game that’s purely for bragging rights? Who cares.</p>

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<p>Haven’t you graduated from UCLA yet? Why do you care what’s being discussed on USC’s message board?</p>