Thursday, November 26, 2009

Best Colleges

Most Popular Colleges: National Universities

Posted January 26, 2009

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The Acceptance Rate for BYU Must be Wrong

Only non-Latter-day Saints are accepted at a rate of 74%. Any Latter-day saint who has applied to BYU Provo knows they only accept 5-10%. This figure must be based on a sample of non-LDS applications.

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I fell massachusetts institute of technology is very good . I want to go there .

Misleading statistics....again.

The yield rate at any particular college is so full of holes its not an accurate reflection of "popularity." Many highly regarded and highly ranked schools with highly selective acceptance rates have low yield because their applicants are also applying to higher ranked schools and/or they are expensive private schools that dont have the deep pockets of some of the Ivy League Schools so kids can't afford to go there without a major scholarship or awesome institutional grants. The true measure of popularity may be the number of applications a school receives and the relative happiness factor of attending/graduating students. The happiness factor may be reflected in graduation rates/transfer rates, though that also is subject to cost/economic factors and from kids who are looking to get into a perceived more prestigious insitution.

Rankings are absurd. A mild curiousity and entertainment value. Oh well.

BYU

Not surprised. Great school. Great students.

UMBC

UMBC is not "basically a premedical school". It's a state university. It has a good pre-med program, but most pre-med students go there because its cheap and has good scholarships, and they need to save their money for med school.

University of Maryland, Baltimore County Is A Traitor Of The Environment.

University of Maryland, Baltimore County Is A Traitor Of The Environment

By Jordan C. Fan, Prophet of Environment.

University of Maryland, Baltimore County near the City of Baltimore is a disastruous school because it does not cooperate with the Environment. This university also rejects Environmental principles. Environmental advocates should avoid this university which is basically a premedical school to prepare students in the medical and related field such as pre-dental, pre-physical therapy, pre-pharmacy, pre-nursing, etc... Since this school is so much a symbol and related to the arts and sciences of curing, its betrayal of the Environment will cause the Health Care and Medical System of the United States and many other places to collapse.

Really?

Yep that cal tech and Duke sure are safety schools compared to the University of Arkansas! Boy howdy I even get in state tuition!

Does USNews even employ one statistician?

Does anyone in the whole organization know what a control variable is?

All of these rankings are laughable at best and harmful to your future college experience at worst.

Make campus visits and choose a college based on anything but these lists. They are beyond useless.

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