DFW HOYA
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Post by DFW HOYA on Sept 10, 2018 9:28:37 GMT -5
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Bigs"R"Us
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Post by Bigs"R"Us on Sept 10, 2018 12:49:12 GMT -5
How can we move up without a leap in our endowment? I don’t consider Emory, Vandy, Wash U, and UCLA better schools.
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Post by reformation on Sept 10, 2018 14:30:50 GMT -5
If we really wanted to focus on this there would be a # of things. Obviously one could try to game some of the admissions stats et al , but if we focus on real stuff I'd say streamlining some of the academic programs and try to build fewer but better centers of excellence that produce more high profile research. I would also say that making the undergrad program more academically rigorous across the board(comparable to the very top schools) would help too in terms of our overall reputation amongst other academics.
I guess the issue is given our low endowment(partly the schools own fault) I'm not sure how much upside that there really is. Also these things are inherently subjective. A school like UCLA actually has much better regarded faculty in most disciplines vs Gtwn, but is not focused the way Gtwn is on wholistic undergrad education.
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Post by reformation on Sept 11, 2018 6:42:23 GMT -5
Not that it matters a ton, I noticed that we also fell slightly in the Wall Street Journal ranking from 26 to 30.
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SSHoya
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Post by SSHoya on Sept 11, 2018 7:00:49 GMT -5
#12 on Forbes list: The Forbes list is notable also for the things it doesn't measure, like SAT scores and acceptance rates, statistics we call "inputs." We think students are more interested in "outputs." Forbes first started ranking America’s top colleges 11 years ago, in partnership with a team led by Ohio University economics professor Richard Vedder. As he wrote in 2008, other lists “are roughly equivalent to evaluating a chef based on the ingredients he or she uses.” With the Forbes list, “we review the meal.” In the same spirit, we now produce the list ourselves. We rank only public schools and private not-for-profits. www.forbes.com/top-colleges/#1af0ba461987 |
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