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markymark
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by markymark » Thu Jun 04, 2009 5:06 pm
chief915 wrote:markymark wrote:im_blue wrote:
In the midwest, WUSTL is known as the poor man's Northwestern. They've only risen in the rankings recently by buying high SAT scores and glossy marketing materials. Their USNWR academic reputation score still lags far behind their overall rank - it's barely in the top 25, tied with Texas/Vandy, and below Wisconsin, UNC, UVa, Rice, and CMU. So it wouldn't surprise me at all if, on average, their students have high SAT scores but are less competent than their peers at Northwestern, Chicago, and Notre Dame. A top 12 undergrad, it ain't.
TITCR.
Their test scores aren't even that impressive for "top 12." Hell, ND is ranked 18th and boasts better admissions stats.
WUSTL middle 50%= 30-33
ND middle 50% = 32-34
ETA:
I'd attend pretty much any other school in the top 25 before attending WUSTL. Also, WUSTL's yield protecting ways are notorious amongst high school counselors.
It really is a great place, but out of curiosity, where did you choose to attend instead?
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chief915
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by chief915 » Thu Jun 04, 2009 5:22 pm
Older and farther East, longer established, great rep. (as everyone knows)
How did you like it there?
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by 20160810 » Thu Jun 04, 2009 5:43 pm
UCB's would be higher if 2/3 of the UG student body weren't non-native English speakers.
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Tave
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by Tave » Thu Jun 04, 2009 5:45 pm
Gustavus Adolphus College: 155
University of Wyoming: 150
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dickie
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by dickie » Thu Jun 04, 2009 6:12 pm
Anyone know Holy Cross mean?
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by prezidentv8 » Thu Jun 04, 2009 6:15 pm
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dickie
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by dickie » Thu Jun 04, 2009 6:32 pm
Answered my on question: Holy Cross 156
Thought it might be higher since I was around the middle of the class but scored much higher than that...
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mike8153
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by mike8153 » Thu Jun 04, 2009 6:47 pm
So much WashU hate here for some reason.
And no one calls WashU a poor man's Northwestern. That doesn't even make sense.
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by 06132010 » Thu Jun 04, 2009 6:48 pm
mike8153 wrote:So much WashU hate here for some reason.
And no one calls WashU a poor man's Northwestern. That doesn't even make sense.
I've got nothing against Wash U.
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DOS
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by DOS » Thu Jun 04, 2009 8:23 pm
Yes I had a friend who went to Wash U UG and I went to UMich. He would always tell me how much harder he had it competing against Wash U students than I did competing against students who went to a state school with a good football program (at least it had a good football at the time). He would then add something like Michigan is decent school too so not to hurt my feelings. I think he meant it seriousily too, since he referred to the respective USNews rank multiple times.
I would humor him conceding that it might be a slightly better. However it looks like the UG LSAT mean scores of the two are exactly the same. And I believe the curves at my school were tougher.
This chart is a very interesting window on UG quality.
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by rayiner » Thu Jun 04, 2009 8:29 pm
DOS wrote:Yes I had a friend who went to Wash U UG and I went to UMich. He would always tell me how much harder he had it competing against Wash U students than I did competing against students who went to a state school with a good football program (at least it had a good football at the time). He would then add something like Michigan is decent school too so not to hurt my feelings. I think he meant it seriousily too, since he referred to the respective USNews rank multiple times.
I would humor him conceding that it might be a slightly better. However it looks like the UG LSAT mean scores of the two are exactly the same. And I believe the curves at my school were tougher.
This chart is a very interesting window on UG quality.
Lol, dooder sounds like an insufferable git. I know bunches of HYPS + C/M people, and none of them ever did shit like that. They didn't have to --- nobody forgets where those schools are in the rankings...
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Marko Ramius
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by Marko Ramius » Thu Jun 04, 2009 8:31 pm
rayiner wrote:Lol, dooder sounds like an insufferable git. I know bunches of HYPS + C/M people, and none of them ever did shit like that. They didn't have to --- nobody forgets where those schools are in the rankings...
Take back what you said about Duke, bitch. Take it back.
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by Dick Whitman » Thu Jun 04, 2009 8:36 pm
My LSAT score was 27 points higher than my schools mean
I don't think I'm going to run into many alumni as a lawyer
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by rayiner » Thu Jun 04, 2009 8:38 pm
Marko Ramius wrote:rayiner wrote:Lol, dooder sounds like an insufferable git. I know bunches of HYPS + C/M people, and none of them ever did shit like that. They didn't have to --- nobody forgets where those schools are in the rankings...
Take back what you said about Duke, bitch. Take it back.
Sorry!
Duke is a solid top 10!
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Marko Ramius
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by Marko Ramius » Thu Jun 04, 2009 8:39 pm
rayiner wrote:Marko Ramius wrote:rayiner wrote:Lol, dooder sounds like an insufferable git. I know bunches of HYPS + C/M people, and none of them ever did shit like that. They didn't have to --- nobody forgets where those schools are in the rankings...
Take back what you said about Duke, bitch. Take it back.
Sorry!
Duke is a solid top 10!
Sure . . .but who really gives a damn?
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BeastCoastHype
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by BeastCoastHype » Thu Jun 04, 2009 10:51 pm
I suspect that the people who really care about undergrad rank etc. haven't spent much time in the working world. No one gives a shit where you went to college after it's over. Everyone is thrown back into the same bucket, with Harvard grads working alongside (and competing against) Ole Miss grads. WUSTL grads could be 12th or 6th or 35th and no one would treat them differently, and Duke grads will never matter anyway. A diploma can be a nice shiny sticker to put on your wall, but it doesn't impress/matter to anyone with any life experience.
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by mallard » Thu Jun 04, 2009 10:53 pm
BeastCoastHype wrote:I suspect that the people who really care about undergrad rank etc. haven't spent much time in the working world. No one gives a shit where you went to college after it's over. Everyone is thrown back into the same bucket, with Harvard grads working alongside (and competing against) Ole Miss grads. WUSTL grads could be 12th or 6th or 35th and no one would treat them differently, and Duke grads will never matter anyway. A diploma can be a nice shiny sticker to put on your wall, but it doesn't impress/matter to anyone with any life experience.
This is not really true in the legal profession, from what I know.
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BeastCoastHype
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by BeastCoastHype » Thu Jun 04, 2009 10:57 pm
mallard wrote:BeastCoastHype wrote:I suspect that the people who really care about undergrad rank etc. haven't spent much time in the working world. No one gives a shit where you went to college after it's over. Everyone is thrown back into the same bucket, with Harvard grads working alongside (and competing against) Ole Miss grads. WUSTL grads could be 12th or 6th or 35th and no one would treat them differently, and Duke grads will never matter anyway. A diploma can be a nice shiny sticker to put on your wall, but it doesn't impress/matter to anyone with any life experience.
This is not really true in the legal profession, from what I know.
Sure, but law is different from everything else. Even in the legal profession though no one cares about your undergrad degree, only where you went and how you did in law school.
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by mallard » Thu Jun 04, 2009 10:59 pm
BeastCoastHype wrote:Sure, but law is different from everything else. Even in the legal profession though no one cares about your undergrad degree, only where you went and how you did in law school.
Hoping this is true, but I'm not all that confident about it. Undergrad certainly matters a lot at other New York corporate gigs like hedge funds and i-banking.
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by BeastCoastHype » Thu Jun 04, 2009 11:01 pm
mallard wrote:BeastCoastHype wrote:Sure, but law is different from everything else. Even in the legal profession though no one cares about your undergrad degree, only where you went and how you did in law school.
Hoping this is true, but I'm not all that confident about it. Undergrad certainly matters a lot at other New York corporate gigs like hedge funds and i-banking.
Somewhat. That all depends more on who you know than where you went.
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by green » Thu Jun 04, 2009 11:07 pm
chief915 wrote:Older and farther East, longer established, great rep. (as everyone knows)
How did you like it there?
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by youpiiz » Fri Jun 05, 2009 8:11 am
SoftBoiledLife wrote:UCB's would be higher if 2/3 of the UG student body weren't non-native English speakers.
excuuuuse me sir
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by Mosca » Fri Jun 05, 2009 8:33 am
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by js87 » Fri Jun 05, 2009 8:52 am
Florida Atlantic University - 147 mean
Which puts me in the top 5% from my school (and I'm still planning on retaking)
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by el_gaucho » Fri Jun 05, 2009 9:16 am
afterglow99 wrote:McGill = 159
Afterglow99, we're cousins.
Concordia University, 152.
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