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We’re ashamed that we logged on at midnight to check this, but we did. USNews & World Report still ranks Columbia at #4 for the second year in a row behind HYP.
PS It’s real this time.
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Sep 13, 2011 
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We’re ashamed that we logged on at midnight to check this, but we did. USNews & World Report still ranks Columbia at #4 for the second year in a row behind HYP.
PS It’s real this time.
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@stanford the main reason stanford is ranked low (e.g. below columbia) is because the methodology considers 4 year graduation rates — and a significant percentage of stanford students (~20%) stay for a 5th year to get a master’s degree, and get both degrees at the same time after 5 years.
Just one reason why the rankings, especially at the top, are meaningless. Or about as meaningful as people’s opinions about the “prestige” of schools – i think most people would consider stanford to be a better school than columbia (for example, the high school counselor scores compiled by USNews). But do you care? i hope not.
@Anonymous Except have a larger applicant pool is a sign of higher prestige.
@Is that Mark Hay in that photo?
@Finally! U of C gets its due! Our only real peer institution comes in at #5.
@Anonymous They use 2010 data, a year and a half old. Columbia should be ranked ahead of Princeton and Yale. Princeton’s admit rate actually Increased this year. Columbia’s applications, stats, SAT scores are now much higher than Princetons.
@Anonymous Right, but doesn’t a smaller admit rate mean (most likely) that more unqualified candidates applied… and were rejected? Certainly, when you get to top tier institutions, anyway.
@Oh hay Stanford What’s up?
btdubs. We should crash their blog: tusb.stanford.edu and inform them of what they have yet to inform their readers about.
@Anonymous No… let’s not. We are above that.
@Anonymous maybe you are. But I’m definitely not.
@hmmmm “Columbia University has three undergraduate schools: Columbia College, The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), and the School of General Studies. “
@Anonymous lol its kinda true. unfortunately only 2 of them are legit.
@Right. CC and GS.
@GSer Hey! I go here too!
@Anonymous Indeed. Barnard is an affiliated college of the University. It has its own admissions policies and personnel.
@Well Yes. This is in fact true. Sorry if various different ways of massaging this reality has led you to believe otherwise. Barnard is women’s liberal arts college located across the street from Columbia, and the two have a long shared history and a unique level of interrelation.
Barnard is ranked on its own against similar schools in the National Liberal Arts Colleges rankings.
@referring to previous preemptive post I’m glad stanford can still suck it.
@Anonymous A five-way tie for #5? Hahahahahahahaha
@specialmonkey barnard.edu/lol
@haha...fail barnarnd is number 33, well behind all of its all-female peers
Want to see now how any one justifies a barnard education being on par with one from columbia.
@Anonymous and princeton moves up to number 1…bullshit. and there’s 5 schools now ranked 5. more bullshit.
also why is columbia’s acceptance rate listed as 10% and harvard and stanford’s 7% in the ranking data?
@Anonymous I think they use 2010 data?
@Anonymous well then this ranking is redundant. columbia should be ranked even higher.
@Anonymous pretty sure GS is counted in there too.
@Anonymous how’s that possible? GS admission statistics are not released.