2014 USNWR T25 Prediction Contest (Winners Announced) Forum

[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!!!