2010 Princeton Review Top 20 Colleges

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1. University of Virginia (Charlottesville)
2. City University of New York - Hunter College (New York, N.Y.)
3. New College of Florida (Sarasota)
4. Florida State University (Tallahassee)
5. University of Colorado-Boulder
6. State University of New York-Binghamton
7. University of Georgia (Athens)
8. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Blacksburg)
9. Texas A&M University (College Station)
10. University of Oklahoma (Norman)
PRIVATE
1. Swarthmore College (Swarthmore, Pa.)
2. Harvard College (Cambridge, Mass.)
3. Wesleyan College (Macon, Ga.)
4. Princeton University (Princeton, N.J.)
5. Yale University (New Haven, Conn.)
6. Williams College (Williamstown, Mass.)
7. Rice University (Houston, Texas)
8. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.)
9. Amherst College (Amherst, Mass.)
10. Wellesley College (Wellesley, Mass.)
 
WHAT!? NO AIU? NO DEVRY? Where is Fidelity recruiting from is all I am concerned about.
 
Wow, ACC representing. UVa, Florida State (?), Virginia Tech (wooo!). I wonder what the methodology is here. As a Virginia Tech graduate, I’m a little surprised, particularly with Florida State. Is this a joke or something? Do I have egg on my face?
 
SMIRK, I think you should have specified these were the top 20 in terms of “best value” for 2010.
 
Where are Cal Tech and MIT? There are 2 all girls colleges on the top 10 private list?
 
I’m not really sure about this “best value” comparison list. Barring immediate financial emergency, someone should take out a loan and go to Princeton for full cost over Wesleyan for free. The difference in expected lifetime earnings will definitely exceed the cost of their undergraduate education.
 
Hello Mister Walrus Wrote:
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> someone should take out a loan and go
> to Princeton for full cost over Wesleyan for free
Let the games begin.
 
My comment was based on a very superficial valuation - the amount of money that you will probably earn as a result of attending either college. Every school has distinct and admirable characteristics. My point is just that if we are going to use cost of attendance (how much $$$ you pay) as a measure of economy in college rankings, we need to consider the monetary returns as well.
Again, this is just a naive empirical observation of opportunities to make money that will result from attending either college. GS recruits more entry level employees at Princeton than they do at Wesleyan. Saving $10k a year on four years of undergraduate tuition is inconsequential compared to your lifetime earnings.
My apologies if I have offended any Wesleyan graduates on this forum.
 
Hello Mister Walrus Wrote:
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> I’m not really sure about this “best value”
> comparison list. Barring immediate financial
> emergency, someone should take out a loan and go
> to Princeton for full cost over Wesleyan for free.
> The difference in expected lifetime earnings will
> definitely exceed the cost of their undergraduate
> education.
Time Value of Money FAIL.
 
adavydov7 Wrote:
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> Boomer Sooner BITCHES!!! and GIG’ EM AGGS!!!!
Dude, I like your posts but the thing is this guy owning the forum, Chad, has a thin skin and could ban you one of these days and we don’t like that. At least use B!tches and you’ll be fine.
 
lol so he wouldn’t even give a warning first? he would just ban someone? that sucks. I also don’t see how the use of “b!tches” is any different from what I wrote since its the same things and everyone knows it. On a related note aren’t they saying b!tches on Nickelodeon now?
PS Even if I did get banned I’d just come back three days later with a different user name and once I start using all caps to post “vulgar” (we are all adults here no?) words everyone would know that on the third day HE rose again;) Thanks for the tip though, I’ll try to keep my profanity laced tirades to a minimum especially if anyone here is offended (personally I thought it was some of the non-profane stuff that I have said that is more inflammatory). Also, I only use use the caps lock option because it has been so egregiously overlooked…almost like a tax loophole that you know will soon be closed so you try to get as much through it as possible before it is (surprisingly I am going on a year now with no comments and no bot updates to ban capped profanities).
 
5 times?!?!? WAHAHAHHA. I was kinda scared I would get banned a few weeks ago when we had this thread going about women, and it got deleted after I had mentioned the insane ‘South Carolina’ Cock brothas…
 
Best value depends on what you want to do. I’ve met public school teachers who went to Harvard and I knew a Virginia Tech guy who got on at Goldman Sachs IBD as an analyst. Plus, if you want to go to law school, so long as you get excellent grades and do well on the LSAT, getting into a top law program is more than doable (a buddy of mine is a 3rd year at Washington University in St. Louis and another is at UVa law), and going to a relatively inexpensive public school would, therefore, bring greater value. In fact, a ton of engineers at VT, for example (I’m sure this applies to many schools), are going to law school to do patent law, which is highly lucrative. College cost me $44,000 for 4 years of tuition, room/board, and textbooks. And I have a job in the finance industry, which is more than a lot of people can say. I’d say it’s been of great value. The average engineer at VT is spending $44k (less scholarships) to earn $55,000-$60,000 per year right out of college doing engineering work. That’s not too bad for Norfolk, VA or Virginia Beach, VA or even Washington, D.C., Richmond, VA or Raleigh, NC.
 
Hello Mister Walrus… can you provide some details of your assumption?
Wesleyan student body = 2,700
Princeton student body = 4,600
did you take this into account in your “more” statement.
 
Does anyone know if most or all of the private schools on the list have variable tuition? I know very few Princeton students actually pay the published tuition rate. Through a combination of work study, grants, and fellowships, they make sure everyone who is accepted can afford to enroll.
 
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