2014 US News Ranking
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Re: 2014 US News Ranking
Posted by: Al DeFlorio (---.hsd1.ma.comcast.net)
Date: September 14, 2013 10:38AM
Any ranking that puts Berkeley at #20 tied with Georgetown is simply baloney. Berkeley is easily top 10 and probably better and UCLA is top 15 at least. Statutory schools are killed by the "selectivity" bullshit while not enough weight is put on quality of faculty.
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Re: 2014 US News Ranking
Posted by: Trotsky (---.hsd1.md.comcast.net)
Date: September 14, 2013 11:16AM
The BCS sucks. The only solution is a playoff.Al DeFlorio
Any ranking that puts Berkeley at #20 tied with Georgetown is simply baloney. Berkeley is easily top 10 and probably better and UCLA is top 15 at least. Statutory schools are killed by the "selectivity" bullshit while not enough weight is put on quality of faculty.
Re: 2014 US News Ranking
Posted by: Scersk '97 (---.dyn.optonline.net)
Date: September 14, 2013 06:07PM
Any ranking that factors in retention and graduation rates as much as this one does rewards finishing schools with rampant grade inflation, i.e., exactly where today's helicopter mommies and daddies, who worry the most about things like rankings, want to send their precious little angels. The horrible thing is how the education "business" itself is starting to buy into this nonsense, focusing on product rather than process. I weep.
Re: 2014 US News Ranking
Posted by: billhoward (---.hsd1.nj.comcast.net)
Date: September 22, 2013 11:26PM
"Selectivity" is important if you got in. If you didn't, then it's BS.
Re: 2014 US News Ranking
Posted by: Trotsky (---.hsd1.md.comcast.net)
Date: September 23, 2013 02:40AM
Twas ever thus. In any group of ten undergrads, in any school, in any year since 1850, 2 are slack-jawed imbeciles looking for amusement, 6 are skittish grade hounds looking for credentials, and 2 are sincere scholars looking for Truth (1 of whom doesn't need academia and becomes happily autodidactic).
USnooze and other rankings tend to concentrate on how well the business is servicing its biggest client. That seems fair.
USnooze and other rankings tend to concentrate on how well the business is servicing its biggest client. That seems fair.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/23/2013 02:41AM by Trotsky.
Re: 2014 US News Ranking
Posted by: French Rage (---.packetdesign.com)
Date: September 23, 2013 01:23PM
Trotsky
Twas ever thus. In any group of ten undergrads, in any school, in any year since 1850, 2 are slack-jawed imbeciles looking for amusement, 6 are skittish grade hounds looking for credentials, and 2 are sincere scholars looking for Truth (1 of whom doesn't need academia and becomes happily autodidactic).
USnooze and other rankings tend to concentrate on how well the business is servicing its biggest client. That seems fair.
Hey, stop saying skittish grade hound like it's a bad thing!
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03/23/02: Maine 4, Harvard 3
03/28/03: BU 6, Harvard 4
03/26/04: Maine 5, Harvard 4
03/26/05: UNH 3, Harvard 2
03/25/06: Maine 6, Harvard 1
03/23/02: Maine 4, Harvard 3
03/28/03: BU 6, Harvard 4
03/26/04: Maine 5, Harvard 4
03/26/05: UNH 3, Harvard 2
03/25/06: Maine 6, Harvard 1
Re: 2014 US News Ranking
Posted by: Trotsky (---.dc.dc.cox.net)
Date: September 23, 2013 02:01PM
They buy geegaws and keep the economy going so the USG can keep cutting my company ridiculous checks. I owe them my job -- I have nothing against them.French Rage
Trotsky
Twas ever thus. In any group of ten undergrads, in any school, in any year since 1850, 2 are slack-jawed imbeciles looking for amusement, 6 are skittish grade hounds looking for credentials, and 2 are sincere scholars looking for Truth (1 of whom doesn't need academia and becomes happily autodidactic).
USnooze and other rankings tend to concentrate on how well the business is servicing its biggest client. That seems fair.
Hey, stop saying skittish grade hound like it's a bad thing!
Re: 2014 US News Ranking
Posted by: Jeff Hopkins '82 (---.airproducts.com)
Date: September 24, 2013 07:45AM
Trotsky
They buy geegaws and keep the economy going so the USG can keep cutting my company ridiculous checks. I owe them my job -- I have nothing against them.French Rage
Trotsky
Twas ever thus. In any group of ten undergrads, in any school, in any year since 1850, 2 are slack-jawed imbeciles looking for amusement, 6 are skittish grade hounds looking for credentials, and 2 are sincere scholars looking for Truth (1 of whom doesn't need academia and becomes happily autodidactic).
USnooze and other rankings tend to concentrate on how well the business is servicing its biggest client. That seems fair.
Hey, stop saying skittish grade hound like it's a bad thing!
Not just the USG. My company makes stuff that goes into all of those geegaws. Keep buying those flat-screens, iPones, laptops, tablets, etc., you grade-hounds. And while you're at it, start buying LED lights, too.
Re: 2014 US News Ranking
Posted by: Trotsky (---.dc.dc.cox.net)
Date: September 24, 2013 10:12AM
Jeff Hopkins '82
Not just the USG. My company makes stuff that goes into all of those geegaws. Keep buying those flat-screens, iPones, laptops, tablets, etc., you grade-hounds. And while you're at it, start buying LED lights, too.
Blessed are the Millenials, for they will buy anything advertised with self-referential irony.
Re: 2014 US News Ranking
Posted by: Robb (---.lsanca.fios.verizon.net)
Date: September 26, 2013 10:57PM
Whoa, freaky. When reading that comic, I could swear that I traveled through a wormhole to the ILDN thread...Trotsky
Jeff Hopkins '82
Not just the USG. My company makes stuff that goes into all of those geegaws. Keep buying those flat-screens, iPones, laptops, tablets, etc., you grade-hounds. And while you're at it, start buying LED lights, too.
Blessed are the Millenials, for they will buy anything advertised with self-referential irony.
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