why UCLA keeps dropping in USNews rankings

lagunal
Wed, 18 Aug 2010 15:09:59 +0000

The only problem that I see with USC is that they still take just about anyone for the entering sophomores, juniors. I know a lot of high school students who were mediocre in high school earning merely Bs and Cs. They went to community colleges, Arizona State, or other lower-ranked schools, and then, through connections, transferred into USC for their sophomore to Junior years. Granted, they did not get into the more prestigious schools such as the undergrad engineering or business schools, but they did get in, nonetheless. I doubt that any of the top 15 schools do anything remotely close to that. I don’t know if Vandy or NU does that either. One of the problems with the rankings is that they tract the entering Freshman class’ SAT scores and HS rankings. They don’t track incoming sophomore or juniors. Colleges know this and cater to this by pushing less desirables to the second semester frosh term or ask them to take a year of comm college first.