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Williams College named Forbes America's Top College

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Makes Williams' 11 straight Director's Cups and Amherst's back to back DIII women's ice hockey titles that much more amazing!
 
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obserbear said:
Makes Williams' 11 straight Director's Cups and Amherst's back to back DIII women's ice hockey titles that much more amazing!
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I didn't check the whole list but I think I saw Wesleyan at 15...Middlebury at 26th.

Elmira and RIT both checked in at the high 500's.
 
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Derek Dunning said:
I didn't check the whole list but I think I saw Wesleyan at 15...Middlebury at 26th.

Elmira and RIT both checked in at the high 500's.
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In fact all of the NESCAC schools that play Women's hockey are in the top 100. That is impressive.
 
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Plugger said:
In fact all of the NESCAC schools that play Women's hockey are in the top 100. That is impressive.
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Given the academic prowess of some of these schools, not all that surprising.

There always seems to be a pretty close correlation between level of academic standards and satisfaction ratings of a school. IMHO it goes back to the type of students that can get into these schools in the first place.
 
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OnMAA said:
Given the academic prowess of some of these schools, not all that surprising.

There always seems to be a pretty close correlation between level of academic standards and satisfaction ratings of a school. IMHO it goes back to the type of students that can get into these schools in the first place.
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I thought this whole article lost it's credibility with the first sentence reading
"The best college in America isn't Cambridge or Princeton..." :eek:

Really? Ummmm. Cambridge is in England so...I just stopped reading it after that. :(

Sure hope this journalist didn't graduate from one of those top 100 NESCAC's. :D
 
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5 4 Fighting said:
I thought this whole article lost it's credibility with the first sentence reading
"The best college in America isn't Cambridge or Princeton..." :eek:

Really? Ummmm. Cambridge is in England so...I just stopped reading it after that. :(

Sure hope this journalist didn't graduate from one of those top 100 NESCAC's. :D
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Please tell me you are kidding about Cambridge........:confused:
 
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5 4 Fighting said:
I thought this whole article lost it's credibility with the first sentence reading
"The best college in America isn't Cambridge or Princeton..." :eek:

Really? Ummmm. Cambridge is in England so...I just stopped reading it after that. :(

Sure hope this journalist didn't graduate from one of those top 100 NESCAC's. :D
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EDIT: OK I read the article again...my bad. It read "isn't in".... not "isn't"!

Darn those Evelyn Wood Speed Reading courses I took in the late 70's...:rolleyes:

Apologies to the author and all members of the NESCAC community... :o
 
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spike said:
Or you attended school #595?
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Hah! I just had to go back and find #595...I'm sure they will be thrilled.

Can't help but think that no bigger lesson has been learned prior to or since, on any US College Campus than in the late spring of 1970 at #594...:(

Neil Young then told the world about it..."Tin Soldiers and Nixon coming...."
 
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5 4 Fighting said:
I thought this whole article lost it's credibility with the first sentence reading
"The best college in America isn't Cambridge or Princeton..." :eek:

Really? Ummmm. Cambridge is in England so...I just stopped reading it after that. :(

Sure hope this journalist didn't graduate from one of those top 100 NESCAC's. :D
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It says ' isn't IN Cambridge or Princeton' , meaning Cambridge MA. I'm surprised our American friends didn't pick up on that. They've got a pretty good University too. LOL.
 
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WHKY blogger said:
Nice honor for Williams but I have to question what goes into this poll? Even more questions after seeing this in the paper today.

http://m.host.madison.com/mobile/article_6ae00fae-a70f-11df-bac3-001cc4c002e0.html
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Oh Wow- UWisconsin checks in at # 212 - how absurd. The ratings are heavily dependent on student ratings of their profs and on a couple of websites (22.5% of the score) called something like payscale.com (30% of score) where people post claims about how much they make and where they went to school. Not exactly hard and reliable data, which is why schools move up and down so much on the Forbes ratings . .
 
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d3follower said:
Oh Wow- UWisconsin checks in at # 212 - how absurd. The ratings are heavily dependent on student ratings of their profs and on a couple of websites (22.5% of the score) called something like payscale.com (30% of score) where people post claims about how much they make and where they went to school. Not exactly hard and reliable data, which is why schhos move up and down so much on the Forbes ratings . .
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I was thinking about the fact there were virtually no public schools on that list outside of the major universities. Like UW and UMTC....and any of those were way down the list...seems a little biased toward the people that can pay an arm and leg to go to the school in the first place. UW should definitely been higher.
 
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Goalie Dad said:
It says ' isn't IN Cambridge or Princeton' , meaning Cambridge MA. I'm surprised our American friends didn't pick up on that. They've got a pretty good University too. LOL.
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That is exactly what I meant in post #8 above.....;)
 
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d3follower said:
Oh Wow- UWisconsin checks in at # 212 - how absurd. The ratings are heavily dependent on student ratings of their profs and on a couple of websites (22.5% of the score) called something like payscale.com (30% of score) where people post claims about how much they make and where they went to school. Not exactly hard and reliable data, which is why schools move up and down so much on the Forbes ratings . .
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Thanks!

gojackets said:
I was thinking about the fact there were virtually no public schools on that list outside of the major universities. Like UW and UMTC....and any of those were way down the list...seems a little biased toward the people that can pay an arm and leg to go to the school in the first place. UW should definitely been higher.
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Thinking the same thing..
 
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