2014 USNWR T25 Prediction Contest (Winners Announced)

[alwayssunnyinfl]

1 Yale
2 Stanford
3 Harvard
4 Columbia
5 Chitcago
6 NYU
7 Whogivesafuck

-this is dingbat

[alwayssunnyinfl]

I don't get Papi's post. Neither North nor Sunny are going to NU...?

why would mich drop to 12 and nw shoot up to 10 ?

DAMN MONKEYS ARE U BLIND

Despite my love for its campus, I think it's time that M settled down where it belongs with DCNG. NU has hovered around 11/12 for the last six years. I don't think 10 is unreasonable, and I like what NU's been doing with WE expectations. Also, nice campus in an ugly city.

You'd better not be talking about Chicago.

[Crowing]

I don't get Papi's post. Neither North nor Sunny are going to NU...?

why would mich drop to 12 and nw shoot up to 10 ?

DAMN MONKEYS ARE U BLIND

Despite my love for its campus, I think it's time that M settled down where it belongs with DCNG. NU has hovered around 11/12 for the last six years. I don't think 10 is unreasonable, and I like what NU's been doing with WE expectations. Also, nice campus in an ugly city.

You'd better not be talking about Chicago.

You didn't bold the right part. FTFY.

[Crowing]

Bro you like presentations and organizing shit don't you?

[North]

Bro you like presentations and organizing shit don't you?

Yeah I should have been an accountant or something.

[Lavitz]

Ok.

_1. Yale
_2. Stanford
_3. Harvard
_4. Columbia
_5. Chicago
_6. NYU
_7. Penn
_8. Berkeley
_9. UVA
10. Duke
11. Michigan
12. Northwestern
13. Cornell
14. Georgetown
15. UCLA
16. UT
17. Vanderbilt
18. USC
19. George Washington
20. Minnesota
21. Notre Dame
22. Emory
23. WUSTL
24. BC
25. W&L

[TripTrip]

Lavitz, I don't think you included enough ties.

[North]

Lavitz, I don't think you included enough ties.

Bex's was even worse. Had something like 20 tied schools.

[Lavitz]

Lavitz, I don't think you included enough ties.

Bex's was even worse. Had something like 20 tied schools.

I have the same number of ties as Crowing. I do think I bumped up Duke too much but I'm not taking this seriously enough to change anything.

[North]

Lavitz, I don't think you included enough ties.

Bex's was even worse. Had something like 20 tied schools.

I have the same number of ties as Crowing. I do think I bumped up Duke too much but I'm not taking this seriously enough to change anything.

Wait, did someone ask you to?

[Lavitz]

I have the same number of ties as Crowing. I do think I bumped up Duke too much but I'm not taking this seriously enough to change anything.

Wait, did someone ask you to?

Lol, no. Just talking (posting?) to myself I guess.

[Crowing]

LOL @ gaud having to get his entry fixed

[LRGhost]

1. Yale
2. Stanford
3. Harvard
4. Columbia
5. Chicago
6. NYU
7. Penn
8. Berkeley
8. Virginia
10. Michigan
10. Duke
12. Northwestern
13. Cornell
14. Georgetown
15. UCLA
15. UT
17. Vanderbilt
18. USC
19. GW
20. Emory
21. UMinn
22. ND
23. W&L
24. BC
25. WUSTL

[guano]

LORs of Chicago trolling in this thread

[North]

First of all, consider this a bump for new submissions.

Ranking your Rankings

I did some amateur (read: probably wrong and misleading) statistical analysis on the first 28 (well, 27, because Sunny's just messed things up and LRGhost didn't make it in time) submissions. If you want to play around with the numbers, here is the spreadsheet I made. You should be able to download it and put it into Excel, but I'm not totally sure how GoogleDrive is different from GoogleDocs yet. Note that the ones that go all the way to #25 get a little janky after UMinn because not everyone included every school thereafter in the T25. Anyway, here are a few:

Ranked according to the average rank assigned by TLSers (ROUNDED)


_1. Yale
_2. Harvard
_3. Stanford
_4. Columbia
_5. Chicago
_6. NYU
_7. Penn
_8. Berkeley
_9. Virginia
10. Michigan
11. Duke
12. Northwestern
13. Cornell
14. Georgetown
15. UCLA
16. Texas
17. Vanderbilt
18. USC
19. UMinn
20. GWU
21. WUSTL
22. Notre Dame
23. Emory
24. U Washington
25. W&L
25. ASU


Ranked according to the average rank assigned by TLSers (NOT ROUNDED)


_1. Yale
_2. Harvard
_3. Stanford
_4. Columbia
_5. Chicago
_6. NYU
_7. Penn
_8. Virginia
_9. Berkekey
10. Michigan
11. Duke
12. Northwestern
13. Cornell
14. Georgetown
15. UCLA
16. Texas
17. Vanderbilt
18. USC
19. UMinn
20. GWU
21. WUSTL
22. Notre Dame
23. Emory
24. ASU
25. U Washington

And now here are some other things Excel told me. I think the standard deviation is really interesting. Y'all really aren't sure where to put UVA, are you?

Median School Rank

Yale: 1
Stanford: 2
Harvard: 2
Columbia: 4
Chicago: 5
NYU: 6
Penn: 7
Berkeley: 8
Virginia: 8
Michigan: 10
Duke: 11
Northwestern: 12
Cornell: 13
Georgetown: 14
UCLA: 15
Texas: 16
Vanderbilt: 17
USC: 18
UMinn: 20

Mode School Rank

Yale: 1
Stanford: 2
Harvard: 2
Columbia: 4
Chicago: 5
NYU: 6
Penn: 7
Virginia: 8
Berkeley: 9 (change)
Michigan: 10
Duke: 11
Northwestern: 12
Cornell: 13
Georgetown: 14
UCLA: 15
Texas: 15 (change)
Vanderbilt: 17
USC: 18
UMinn: 20

Standard Deviation of School Rank
(Average = 0.785923; Above Average Uncertainty vs. Below Average Uncertainty)

Most Certain

Yale: 0.1924
Cornell: 0.3620
NYU: 0.4369
Columbia: 0.4560
Stanford: 0.5091
Harvard: 0.5091
Georgetown: 0.6155
Penn: 0.6751
UMinn: 0.7337
Chicago: 0.8077
Northwestern: 0.8439
Vanderbilt: 0.8931
Berkeley: 0.9120
Texas: 0.9607
USC: 1.0741
Duke: 1.0794
UCLA: 1.2206
Michigan: 1.2821
Virginia: 1.3681
Least Certain

[ManOfTheMinute]

_1. Yale
_2. Stanford
_3. Harvard
_4. Columbia
_5. Chicago
_6. NYU
_7. Berkeley
_8. UPenn
_9. Michigan
10. UVA
11. Duke
12. Georgetown
13. Northwestern
14. Cornell
15. Texas
16. UCLA
17. Vanderbilt
18. USC
19. GWU
20. UMinn
21. WUSTL
22. Emory
23. Notre Dame
24. U Washington
25. ASU

[cricketlove00]

Totally late to this but idgaf I want those pistachios.

_1. Yale
_2. Stanford
_3. Harvard
_4. Columbia
_5. Chicago
_6. NYU
_7. UPenn
_8. UVA
_9. Berkeley
10. Duke
11. Michican
12. Northwestern
13. Cornell
14. Georgetown
15. UCLA
16. Vanderbilt
17. UT
18. USC
19. UMinn
20. GWU
21. Notre Dame
22. W&L
23. Emory
24. Wash U
25. BU

[Crowing]

Btw some people (including you North) have a tie at 25 which causes you to have 26 schools listed - obvs this is gonna be a problem with scoring but idk what you want to do about that.

[Renne Walker]

_1. Yale
_2. Harvard
_3. NYU
_4. Stanford
_5. Columbia
_6. UPENN
_7. Chicago
_8. Berkeley
_9.Virginia
10 Duke
11. Northwestern
12. Cornell
13. Michigan
14. Georgetown
15. UTexas
16. UCLA
17. Vandy
18. U Minn
19. USC
20. Emory
20. W&L
22. G Washington
23. Washington U
24. Notre Dame
25. Boston U

Bringing the Love for NYU and this year's rightful surprise!

[ManOfTheMinute]

_1. Yale
_2. Harvard
_3. NYU
_4. Stanford
_5. Columbia
_6. UPENN
_7. Chicago
_8. Berkeley
_9.Virginia
10 Duke
11. Northwestern
12. Cornell
13. Michigan
14. Georgetown
15. UTexas
16. UCLA
17. Vandy
18. U Minn
19. USC
20. Emory
20. W&L
22. G Washington
23. Washington U
24. Notre Dame
25. Boston U

Bringing the Love for NYU and this year's rightful surprise!

Well it would be impressive as hell if someone saw that one coming...

[North]

_1. Yale
_2. Harvard
_3. NYU
_4. Stanford
_5. Columbia
_6. UPENN
_7. Chicago

Egregious Penn trolling.

Btw some people (including you North) have a tie at 25 which causes you to have 26 schools listed - obvs this is gonna be a problem with scoring but idk what you want to do about that.

Another good save, bro. I fixed mine -- went with BC over BU because of employment stats and that godawful tower. It appears to be only my man Unoriginalist who also had a tie at 25. I'll PM him and have him pick between U Wash and Emory.

ETA: Everything should be fixed now.

[alwayssunnyinfl]

_1. Yale
_2. Harvard
_3. NYU
_4. Stanford
_5. Columbia
_6. UPENN
_7. Chicago

Egregious Penn trolling.

Seriously. How does NYU vault past Columbia and Stanford (LOL) and leave Penn behind?

Also, none of those schools are the best.

[Renne Walker]

Seriously. How does NYU vault past Columbia and Stanford....

NYU is #4 in the Law Journal ranking of “Go-to-Schools.” Ahead of Columbia and Stanford in JDs and BL hiring. #3 is not exactly a huge stretch.

[alwayssunnyinfl]

Seriously. How does NYU vault past Columbia and Stanford....

NYU is #4 in the Law Journal ranking of “Go-to-Schools.” Ahead of Columbia and Stanford in JDs and BL hiring. #3 is not exactly a huge stretch.

Oh, I'm sorry. I thought we were talking about USNWR.

[ManOfTheMinute]

Seriously. How does NYU vault past Columbia and Stanford....

NYU is #4 in the Law Journal ranking of “Go-to-Schools.” Ahead of Columbia and Stanford in JDs and BL hiring. #3 is not exactly a huge stretch.

Hahahaha you're cute. I think NYU is higher than Yale in Cooley's rankings too!!!