<p>Duke</p>
<p>Miami (FL) or Miami (OH)</p>
<p>Miami of Ohio, the Florida one is very expensive and far from home.</p>
<p>UIUC or Wisconsin?</p>
<p>Wisconsin</p>
<p>^^^ Forbes doesn’t make sense. How can the Military Academy surpass Harvard? Plus how does Cal Tech surpass Yale and Harvard? Or Dartmouth? Forbes ranks are totally screwed up.</p>
<p>Cal Tech or UC Berkeley</p>
<p>Caltech</p>
<p>Middlebury or Wesleyan?</p>
<p>Wesleyan. (HAHA)</p>
<p>Pomona or Middlebury?</p>
<p>^ lol</p>
<p>Probably Pomona</p>
<p>Duke or Emory?</p>
<p>duke</p>
<p>UC irvine or UC san diego</p>
<p>nothingto i guess you’re one of those people who don’t understand that the ivy league is nothing more than an athletic conference. if you want to worship harvard yale and Dartmouth than that’s you’re business. the forbes rankings however show that some schools, like BC, Cal Tech and West Point are able to do great things for students and it doesn’t matter they’re not in the ivy league</p>
<p>UCSD</p>
<p>Rice or Vanderbilt</p>
<p>Vanderbilt</p>
<p>University of Texis - At Austin or USC?</p>
<p>^^ The schools inside the Ivy are one of the best in the world. They are the most selective/academically gifted institutions in the nation. You seem to not understand that, because you got accepted to Boston College. There is no way in hell can the Military Academy ever be above par to any of the Ivies. If it is, then I can call bull on that ranking. Don’t get me wrong, Boston College is a great college (One of the best to, top 35 in the nation) but Forbes just isn’t reliable. If you bothered to actually look at the schools they ranked that high, they all have terrible SAT/ACT scores. Would you call a university with a 1200-1400 average as student SAT score, top 10? I wouldn’t rely on any ranking website if it did that. Plus another huge flaw is that if you check Yale University, they say that the SAT range is 1400-1580. They say Harvard’s sat score range is 1390-1580. That’s just so wrong on so many levels, unless it’s on the 1600 scale, which is still so un-reliable. Plus I don’t know how on Earth Cornell could be ranked 105th. </p>
<p>Plus the fact that I actually like other schools more then some of the Ivies, should disprove some of your assumptions. I would choose Stanford/MIT/Vanderbilt/Northwestern/NYU over some of the Ivies…</p>
<p>nothingto, get a life.</p>
<p>Thanks. (10 char)</p>
<p>Hey, Flamers,</p>
<p>The “best” school is the best match according to stuff that can’t be quantified by USNWR, Forbes, NY Times, etc. Now, get off your rankings high-horse!!</p>
<p>Llanview or Pine Valley University.</p>
<p>^ I agree completely. The best school is the best fit. Perhaps a student body as a whole has high SAT scores and high school GPAs, but I honestly believe that the caliber of the actual academics will be similar at ANY of the top 20, probably top 50 schools. You can get a good education at any of them.
(Nothingto, I think it’s pretty obvious that those SAT scores are out of 1600. I agree that the Forbes rankings are a little, um, odd, but their SAT data is perfectly accurate)</p>
<p>To put this thread back on track…to be honest, I’ve never heard of either Llanview or Pine Valley, but if I had to choose, I’d say Pine Valley because it has a nice name (haha).</p>
<p>Bates or Colby?</p>
<p>Bates</p>
<p>Queens College or Brooklyn College?</p>
<p>^Yeah I know that, which is also why I called it un-reliable. If you only give info of a 2400 school, as a 1600, that is an un-reliable source. Do you know Forbes gets it’s info from “Rate My Professors.com”?
[America’s</a> Best Colleges 2008 - Forbes.com](<a href=“http://www.forbes.com/2008/08/13/college-university-rankings-oped-college08-cx_rv_mn_0813intro.html]America’s”>America's Best Colleges 2008)
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<p>But this doesn’t matter anyway. I agree, its just rank. Nothing to get so hyped about :)</p>
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<p>You’re right in that one can get a great education at any top 50 school. However, presige, opportunities (internships, job placement, etc.), financial aid, and strength of faculty vary greatly in the top 50. For a person interested in Political Science and Government, Harvard would be a far more rewarding experience than, say, Tulane. So departmental strengths are an important factor to consider. While all the top 50 schools provide a word-class education, that “world-class” factor is more prevalent in some than in others, although not enough to make college admissions as intense as it has become, IMO.</p>
<p>^That is very true, and always necessary to consider when choosing a college. </p>
<p>^^Queens College.</p>
<p>Full ride to UVA (Jefferson Scholarship) or full-pay to Cornell?</p>
<p>Cornell.</p>
<p>Williams or Dartmouth?</p>
<p>Williams. </p>
<p>Hmmm…Vanderbilt or UNC-Chapel Hill?</p>
<p>^^ Dartmouth for name recognition, Williams for academics.</p>
<p>Reese, I would attend vandy.</p>
<p>Notre Dame or Wash U?</p>
<p>Wash U, free tuition because of my dad’s employment there.</p>
<p>UCLA or Michigan?</p>