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It's that time of the year. The 2012 US News ranking will come out in the Ides of March. Not that the ranking is worth anything, but it's always fun to place wagers on the potential winners and losers.

Getting a head start to the influx of discussion sure to arise in 4 days.

Will Cornell get back in the top 15?
Will Wharton catch up to Sloan?

Update: The rankings are out: https://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandr ... a-rankings

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10 Mar 2011, 21:16

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I've got a better game. Since Tuck moved its decision up a week, will Fuqua follow suit?

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don't worry, next year, all the decision will be out by August.

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Will McCombs hold on to it top 20 position? Is it possible that it inches into the top 15 club? Last year ranked at 16.

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University of Phoenix overtakes HBS.

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US News follows BW and places Southern Methodist over Dartmouth, NYU and Yale.

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11 Mar 2011, 20:04

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UNC should move up a few spots. Low placement rates hurt them last year, but from what I've gathered those rebounded nicely last year and their average GMAT is up.

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11 Mar 2011, 20:20

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was thinking about posting this too.

Gtown....top 20
Yale top 10

Let not forget USNEWS is heavily based ion GMAT/GPA and acceptance rate.

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was thinking about posting this too.

Gtown....top 20
Yale top 10

Let not forget USNEWS is heavily based ion GMAT/GPA and acceptance rate.

Well, points to you jordanhendrix. Looks like Yale made it to the Top 10 after all.

https://www.usnews.com/education/best-gr ... ss-schools

To be fair it looks like they're considering the "Top 11" schools because of a tie, so I'm guessing the 10th school on the list is tied with the 11th.

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^^^Kudos for the link!

Yale doesn't deserve to be amongst those schools....not yet at least.

Its their crazy high gmat average...722
thats nutty

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12 Mar 2011, 09:59

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I agree- and they might very well end up as #11 this year again...

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My prediction:
1) Stanford
2) HBS
3) Sloan
3) Wharton
5) Kellogg
5) Booth
7) Haas
7) Tuck
9) CBS
10) Stern
10) YSOM
12) Ross
13) Fuqua
14) Darden

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12 Mar 2011, 11:13

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Top 5 prediction
1. Wharton
2. Stanford
3. HBS
4. Booth
5. Haas

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14 Mar 2011, 03:43

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Will Texas struggle to stay in the top 20?

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14 Mar 2011, 10:28

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I love March Madness! I filled out a bracket too:

1. Harvard
1. Stanford
3. Wharton
4. Chicago Booth
4. MIT Sloan
6. NW Kellogg
7. Columbia
7. Dartmouth Tuck
9. UCB Haas
9. NYU Stern
9. Yale SOM

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Both Chicago Booth and Yale have a lot of momentum.

Who is taking bets here?

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They're out!

1) Stanford
2) Harvard
3) MIT
3) Wharton
5) Kellogg
5) Booth
7) Tuck
7) Haas
9) Columbia
10) Stern
10) Yale
12) Duke
13) Darden
14) UCLA
14) Michigan
16) Johnson
17) McCombs
18) Tepper
19) UNC

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#1 Stanford University
Stanford, CA
Full-time: $53,118 per year 799 3.69 728 6.8% $131,949 75.8%

#2 Harvard University
Boston, MA
Full-time: $48,600 per year 1,840 3.67 724 11.2% $131,759 78.6%

#3 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan)
Cambridge, MA
Full-time: $50,353 per year 797 3.57 718 13.0% $125,905 75.6%

#3 University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
Philadelphia, PA
Full-time: $48,550 per year 1,687 3.50 718 16.8% $132,579 72.5%

#5 Northwestern University (Kellogg)
Evanston, IL
Full-time: $51,495 per year 1,280 3.52 714 19.9% $123,996 75.2%

#5 University of Chicago (Booth)
Chicago, IL
Full-time: $50,900 per year 1,177 3.52 715 22.3% $126,779 75.8%

#7 Dartmouth College (Tuck)
Hanover, NH
Full-time: $50,700 per year 537 3.50 716 20.3% $128,013 80.0%

#7 University of California--Berkeley (Haas)
Berkeley, CA
In-state, full-time: $41,680 per year; Out-of-state, full-time: $49,647 per year 497 3.63 718 11.6% $120,164 64.9%

#9 Columbia University
New York, NY
Full-time: $53,208 per year 1,291 3.50 712 15.3% $123,486 67.2%

#10 New York University (Stern)
New York, NY
Full-time: $44,400 per year 807 3.42 715 13.2% $121,867 73.7%

#10 Yale University
New Haven, CT
Full-time: $49,900 per year 465 3.52 722 17.3% $113,226 64.1%

#12 Duke University (Fuqua)
Durham, NC
Full-time: $47,960 per year 901 3.40 697 23.7% $118,923 63.6%

#13 University of Virginia (Darden)
Charlottesville, VA
In-state, full-time: $42,173 per year; Out-of-state, full-time: $46,500 per year 649 3.41 699 26.3% $119,278 69.0%

#14 University of California--Los Angeles (Anderson)
Los Angeles, CA
In-state, full-time: $40,983 per year; Out-of-state, full-time: $48,927 per year 729 3.53 710 29.0% $108,806 54.2%

#14 University of Michigan--Ann Arbor (Ross)
Ann Arbor, MI
In-state, full-time: $45,000 per year; Out-of-state, full-time: $50,000 per year 961 3.40 704 25.4% $116,201 59.8%

#16 Cornell University (Johnson)
Ithaca, NY
Full-time: $49,272 per year 549 3.25 687 23.4% $112,039 66.8%

#17 University of Texas--Austin (McCombs)
Austin, TX
In-state, full-time: $30,128 per year; Out-of-state, full-time: $45,128 per year 537 3.43 684 24.0% $108,886 64.8%

#18 Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper)
Pittsburgh, PA
Full-time: $52,500 per year 404 3.23 694 27.5% $106,066 69.7%

#19 University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler)
Chapel Hill, NC
In-state, full-time: $21,475 per year; Out-of-state, full-time: $43,599 per year 585 3.30 686 36.1% $111,327 60.3%

#20 Washington University in St. Louis (Olin)
St. Louis, MO
Full-time: $44,300 per year 303 3.48 695 28.6% $90,767 61.0%

#21 University of Minnesota--Twin Cities (Carlson)
Minneapolis, MN
In-state, full-time: $28,896 per year; Out-of-state, full-time: $41,144 per year 170 3.50 694 30.3% $97,298 63.0%

#21 University of Southern California (Marshall)
Los Angeles, CA
Full-time: $44,917 per year 460 3.30 690 22.0% $101,810 53.6%

#23 Emory University (Goizueta)
Atlanta, GA
Full-time: $42,400 per year 337 3.34 680 33.3% $100,300 57.2%

#23 Indiana University--Bloomington (Kelley)
Bloomington, IN
In-state, full-time: $24,478 per year; Out-of-state, full-time: $43,460 per year 455 3.31 664 41.7% $101,206 70.1%

#25 Georgetown University (McDonough)
Washington, DC
Full-time: $45,984 per year 508 3.37 684 42.5% $103,676 58.0%

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Damn, I got everything right except for Ross.

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Aren't these old rankings?

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