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re: U.S. News & World Report 2025 Best Colleges list
Posted on 9/24/24 at 7:00 pm to RLDSC FAN
Posted on 9/24/24 at 7:00 pm to RLDSC FAN
1. Princeton
2. MIT
3. Harvard
4. Stanford
5. Yale
6. CA institute of technology
7. Duke
8. John Hopkins
9. Northwestern
10. University of PA
Zero SEC Championships
2. MIT
3. Harvard
4. Stanford
5. Yale
6. CA institute of technology
7. Duke
8. John Hopkins
9. Northwestern
10. University of PA
Zero SEC Championships
This post was edited on 9/24/24 at 7:02 pm
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Posted on 9/24/24 at 7:03 pm to tketaco
No. 9, Northwestern.
Let's hear it for YOUR Demons!!!!!!!!!!!!
Let's hear it for YOUR Demons!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted on 9/24/24 at 7:33 pm to HarryBalzack
The private schools in the Top 20 aren't really meritocracies. Their Admissions Officers are curating a student body comprised entirely of 3 profiles:
1. "Disadvantaged" Minorities (though they likely are admitting more Asians to show compliance w/ the recent SCOTUS case)
2. Athletes
3. Legacies and super-rich prep school kids
With the exception of Rice, which is working to increase its student population by 20% over the next few years, all of these schools have also effectively frozen enrollment over the past 15-30 years, while the population of qualified and interested applicants has increased substantially.
A white or asian (see above for recent exceptions) kid from an upper middle-class background attending a large suburban public or parochial school who is not an athlete has a near-zero chance of admission, even with perfect grades and test scores. That's why the "Public Ivy's" are increasingly more competitive and attracting an even-higher caliber of student. The smartest kids at Michigan, UCLA, UNC, UVA, UT Austin and Georgia Tech probably would've been at Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Princeton, MIT, et al 20 years ago.
1. "Disadvantaged" Minorities (though they likely are admitting more Asians to show compliance w/ the recent SCOTUS case)
2. Athletes
3. Legacies and super-rich prep school kids
With the exception of Rice, which is working to increase its student population by 20% over the next few years, all of these schools have also effectively frozen enrollment over the past 15-30 years, while the population of qualified and interested applicants has increased substantially.
A white or asian (see above for recent exceptions) kid from an upper middle-class background attending a large suburban public or parochial school who is not an athlete has a near-zero chance of admission, even with perfect grades and test scores. That's why the "Public Ivy's" are increasingly more competitive and attracting an even-higher caliber of student. The smartest kids at Michigan, UCLA, UNC, UVA, UT Austin and Georgia Tech probably would've been at Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Princeton, MIT, et al 20 years ago.
Posted on 9/24/24 at 7:36 pm to shutterspeed
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nb4 Johns Hopkins
I smoked pot with Johnny Hopkins.
Posted on 9/24/24 at 7:49 pm to RLDSC FAN
Duke has to represent the entire south?
Posted on 9/24/24 at 7:58 pm to Jake88
quote:
Which schools accept coal and produce diamonds?
I think that's an excellent question and I'd like to know the answer.
Posted on 9/24/24 at 8:01 pm to HarryBalzack
We hired a guy from Stanford and he was insufferable. He went back to Cali for a lower paying job in the Bay Area.
Posted on 9/24/24 at 8:43 pm to Mr Happy
I bet.
I was on Harvard's campus back in March. They have so many bums running around that they have shut down all the public restrooms that aren't behind key-swipe doors. The only one left is in the student center. They had the main one closed, so I walked upstairs to the "family" one holer. Somebody was in there, writing their dissertation, while three people stood in line outside. The guy first in line was doing the pee-pee dance.
The areas they have for students to sit in are behind key-swipe doors. Heaven forbid they let the cops run off the poor bums and cretins. At least you can find a place to piss and walk across the campus without being accosted at LSU, Ole Miss, Bama, etc.
I was on Harvard's campus back in March. They have so many bums running around that they have shut down all the public restrooms that aren't behind key-swipe doors. The only one left is in the student center. They had the main one closed, so I walked upstairs to the "family" one holer. Somebody was in there, writing their dissertation, while three people stood in line outside. The guy first in line was doing the pee-pee dance.
The areas they have for students to sit in are behind key-swipe doors. Heaven forbid they let the cops run off the poor bums and cretins. At least you can find a place to piss and walk across the campus without being accosted at LSU, Ole Miss, Bama, etc.
Posted on 9/24/24 at 8:57 pm to HarryBalzack
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The areas they have for students to sit in are behind key-swipe doors. Heaven forbid they let the cops run off the poor bums and cretins. At least you can find a place to piss and walk across the campus without being accosted at LSU, Ole Miss, Bama, etc.
I went to a conference in Boston with my boss once, and after it was over we spent an afternoon just kind of meandering around Boston. He wanted to go to Harvard and he was disappointed that they wouldn't let us into any of the buildings. Like, there was literally nowhere at Harvard where you could just walk into a nice, air-conditioned Harvard building and sit down for five minutes. He was hoping to go into some library and real a newspaper, I guess. What's the weathah like up in Baah Haabah? Who gives a shite, man
.Posted on 9/24/24 at 9:00 pm to Shexter
That can’t be right. Ellllllsssssuuuu is number 1. And our football coach is diagneeeeeeestic.
Posted on 9/24/24 at 10:02 pm to RLDSC FAN
There are a lot of head scratchers on that list.
FSU?
Howard?
USF? (Commuter school)
Every single satellite UC campus? (who likely lead the nation in admissions wokeness)
Baylor? (did they confuse the main campus with the completely separate med school? It's a pleasant place for rich moderately conservative kids to go get a non-STEM education)
I notice several good schools seem to have slipped for no apparent reason:
Purdue
Lehigh
Texas (which is being pushed hard back to the political center by the state)
A few others.
Ironically, the best lists like this usually come from foreign sources, because their only concern is how good of an education their grad students they send over get. There used to be one that came from Saudi, probably still out there. About 20 years ago, the Chinese had a good one too, but then some bright toadying commie decided all of their schools should dominate the public version of the list.
FSU?
Howard?
USF? (Commuter school)
Every single satellite UC campus? (who likely lead the nation in admissions wokeness)
Baylor? (did they confuse the main campus with the completely separate med school? It's a pleasant place for rich moderately conservative kids to go get a non-STEM education)
I notice several good schools seem to have slipped for no apparent reason:
Purdue
Lehigh
Texas (which is being pushed hard back to the political center by the state)
A few others.
Ironically, the best lists like this usually come from foreign sources, because their only concern is how good of an education their grad students they send over get. There used to be one that came from Saudi, probably still out there. About 20 years ago, the Chinese had a good one too, but then some bright toadying commie decided all of their schools should dominate the public version of the list.
This post was edited on 9/24/24 at 10:03 pm
Posted on 9/24/24 at 10:30 pm to TigerHornII
I somewhat recently graduated from USF so I suppose I could be bias, although I truly don’t think I am with this. I’m not terribly concerned with where USF ranks.
That said, I’m pretty sure I’ve read that USF is becoming a pretty respectable public college. I think I’ve seen it higher than 45 in some other rankings too.
That said, I’m pretty sure I’ve read that USF is becoming a pretty respectable public college. I think I’ve seen it higher than 45 in some other rankings too.
Posted on 9/24/24 at 10:41 pm to Geauxgurt
quote:
Another factor that I've read too is that their students are exceptionally adept at navigating scheduling, making sure that they get into the classes where the profs are known to be easier graders and limiting the number of hard classes they take concurrently.
This is anecdotal so take it with a grain of salt, but I've heard that these kids don't just nail down the scheduling for themselves, but they'll actually work in groups of like 15-20 students, all pursuing the same major, to plot schedules of staggered sections of the same course with the same professor(s). They'll do this for their entire schedule such that each student in the group gets to be a "scout" for a given course. The scout relays quiz/test/assignment information (including questions and answers) from their earlier section back to the bigger group, who can then take that information to their later sections. Boom, everyone in the group aces every class on their schedule.
I've never seen it myself but I've heard of this happening from enough people that I suspect there's an inkling of truth to it. And with stuff like WhatsApp and Discord popular among this age group it would not be difficult at all to pull off.
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