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    USN&WR Best Colleges 2009

    Apparently this list has been leaked (that might not be the right word, as the dead-tree USN&WR that contains this list has shown up on newsstands). Duke's ranking is unchanged from last year, although we now have to share it with a couple other folks. Princeton was #1 last year. I think they have to rotate the top spot among H, P and Y.

    As of this moment, the list on USN&WR's Web site is still the 2008 list.

    1. Harvard
    2. Princeton
    3. Yale
    4. Stanford/Mit (tie)
    6. Caltech/UPenn (tie)
    8. Duke/Columbia/UChicago (tie)
    11. Dartmouth
    12. Washington U/Northwestern (tie)
    14. Cornell
    15. Hopkins
    16. Brown (No! Not Brown... Brown... Brown...)
    17. Rice
    18. Emory/Vandy/ND (tie)

    The ACC standings look like this:

    8. Duke
    22. UVa
    29. Wake
    30. UNC-CH (Ouch! Below Wake!)
    34. BC
    35. GIT
    51. U of Miami
    53. UMCP
    61. Clempsun
    71. VPI
    83. NC State
    102. FSU

    Link here. Nobody on that board is disputing the data.

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    I have less respect for the US News rankings than I do for Paris Hilton.

    A movie is not about what it's about; it's about how it's about it.
    ---Roger Ebert


    Some questions cannot be answered
    Who’s gonna bury who
    We need a love like Johnny, Johnny and June
    ---Over the Rhine

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    Quote Originally Posted by throatybeard View Post
    I have less respect for the US News rankings than I do for Paris Hilton.
    You should check out Forbes' list from last week. I still don't know whether they are serious or not.

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    Quote Originally Posted by throatybeard View Post
    I have less respect for the US News rankings than I do for Paris Hilton.
    Shouldn't it be about the same? Both have managed to parlay a minimal amount of substance into a ton of attention through sensationalism and clever marketing. I don't think we've seen a Mort Zuckerman sex tape, so I guess the magazine should get a slight edge.

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    29. Wake
    30. UNC-CH (Ouch! Below Wake!)
    This is my favorite part of the rankings. I'm surprised that UNC ranked this high on the list.


    Q. What does the N in UNC stand for?

    A. Nowledge.

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    I used to care but then I graduated...

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    Duke University #8 Best

    http://finance.yahoo.com/college-edu...-Colleges-2009

    Be proud alums and alum wanna be's.

    Oh and if anyone cares you have to do a little digging, but UNC was ranked 30th.

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    It always chaps me when we are behind Penn. Philly? Yuck!

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    Quote Originally Posted by throatybeard View Post
    I have less respect for the US News rankings than I do for Paris Hilton.
    I prefer Paris' presidential parody piece.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lavabe View Post
    I prefer Paris' presidential parody piece.
    Say it ain't so...

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    Quote Originally Posted by YmoBeThere View Post
    It always chaps me when we are behind Penn. Philly? Yuck!
    Isn't that kind of like saying "New Haven? Yuck!" In other words, huh?

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    Quote Originally Posted by YmoBeThere View Post
    I used to care but then I graduated...
    That's even better than my answer.

    A movie is not about what it's about; it's about how it's about it.
    ---Roger Ebert


    Some questions cannot be answered
    Who’s gonna bury who
    We need a love like Johnny, Johnny and June
    ---Over the Rhine

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    Quote Originally Posted by YmoBeThere View Post
    I used to care but then I graduated...
    I used to care, but then I graduated ... but then I became a parent.

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    Quote Originally Posted by hurleyfor3 View Post
    Apparently this list has been leaked (that might not be the right word, as the dead-tree USN&WR that contains this list has shown up on newsstands). Duke's ranking is unchanged from last year, although we now have to share it with a couple other folks. Princeton was #1 last year. I think they have to rotate the top spot among H, P and Y.

    As of this moment, the list on USN&WR's Web site is still the 2008 list.

    1. Harvard
    2. Princeton
    3. Yale
    4. Stanford/Mit (tie)
    6. Caltech/UPenn (tie)
    8. Duke/Columbia/UChicago (tie)
    11. Dartmouth
    12. Washington U/Northwestern (tie)
    14. Cornell
    15. Hopkins
    16. Brown (No! Not Brown... Brown... Brown...)
    17. Rice
    18. Emory/Vandy/ND (tie)

    The ACC standings look like this:

    8. Duke
    22. UVa
    29. Wake
    30. UNC-CH (Ouch! Below Wake!)
    34. BC
    35. GIT
    51. U of Miami
    53. UMCP
    61. Clempsun
    71. VPI
    83. NC State
    102. FSU

    Link here. Nobody on that board is disputing the data.
    22?!? The game's gotta be rigged.

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    Quote Originally Posted by YmoBeThere View Post
    It always chaps me when we are behind Penn. Philly? Yuck!
    I'm from philly and yes it is yuck. nonetheless, when I describe durham to my friends who have never been, well, suffice to say I use at least one four letter word and its not "yuck"

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    Quote Originally Posted by throatybeard View Post
    I have less respect for the US News rankings than I do for Paris Hilton.
    At least Paris has an articulated energy policy.

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    Georgetown needs to step up their game and get back in the top 20.

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    these new rankings use the admissions data for Duke's freshman entering in the fall 2007. That year we were impacted by the lacrosse hoax. Going from 8th to tied for 8th is a bit of a demotion, I suppose. Hopefully, the 2008 incoming data will help (stronger than 2007), as well as distancing ourselves from what happened in March 2006, providing Duke with positive momentum going forward.

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    IMO Reed College and others have it right - the USN&WR rankings are a crock of dung and should not be taken seriously.

    If they want to rank schools in descending order of tuition & fees, room & board, fine. Or by SAT or ACT scores, OK. But to create an index that may not reflect at all what is important to an applicant, and changing the methodology nearly every year in response to poltiical pressure, and including a huge weight on some vague/subjective "peer assessment" etc., it's ridiculous.

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    Quote Originally Posted by UVaAmbassador View Post
    22?!? The game's gotta be rigged.
    The only higher-ranked public school was Berkeley at #21.

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