| Queens | |
| Weird Student newspapers that make no sense |
20 |
| Rated best university in Canada by the Freshmen |
30 |
| Rated middle of the road by upper classmen |
-15 |
| Lots of ugly, senseless modern art to mock |
25 |
| Next to a big lake |
30 |
| Cool chem labs with hairdryers for joint experiment and makeup sessions |
50 |
| Crappy tennis courts |
-15 |
| Relatively unimpressive tour guides |
-25 |
| College town that's pretty nice and heavily student occupied |
20 |
| A lot of students are runners |
10 |
| Student government banned Fraternities and Sororities and made it stick |
20 |
| Major traffic running throughout the campus |
-50 |
| School year is six weeks shorter than the US |
-25 |
| Eloquent admissions counselor who made jokes about his own weight |
20 |
| Mediocre food |
-10 |
| Cold for most of the year |
-20 |
| Total |
65 |
| Prorated total |
2.5 |
| Vasser | |
| Most beautiful campus ever built |
100 |
| Professors and students stopped to ask if we needed any help |
100 |
| Great food at a dining facility that was used in a muppet movie |
50 |
| Chem labs with "waldo" arms and blast shields |
50 |
| Oh, and pine trees |
25 |
| One piece of ugly, senseless modern art to mock |
5 |
| Eloquent, funny admin counselor with blue spotted bow tie |
20 |
| And camel hair jacket and penny loafers |
20 |
| Actual differentiation in approach to teaching |
100 |
| A heck of a lot of different majors |
50 |
| Have Quiddich team and dorms have color scarves |
20 |
| Small lake |
10 |
| Heavy internship program |
20 |
| World class architect designed buildings that are ugly and clash with every other building on campus |
-15 |
| World class architect designed buildings that are ugly and try to blend in with every other building on campus |
-15 |
| More than 50% of the students do at least one semester overseas |
25 |
| Total |
565 |
| Prorated total |
12.2 |
| UMass Amherst | |
| Have a medium sized pond |
15 |
| Rated 15th in chemistry in the country… based on NSF grants |
25 |
| Rated 96th in Newsweek's 2008 university ratings |
4 |
| Slightly goofy admin counselor that I quoted |
15 |
| Rated 44th in engineering worldwide by some other ranking |
66 |
| Great college town that is 90% student occupied |
15 |
| Some ugly art but, more importantly, one of the ugliest art centers ever designed |
50 |
| Lots of major shows on campus including Sara Bareilles |
30 |
| 88 different majors |
88 |
| Funny, engaging sophomore tour guide that seemed bright, energetic, and self confident |
75 |
| Significant exchange opportunities overseas and with other schools |
25 |
| Biggest damn library I've every seen |
25 |
| Rowdy students laying out on the grass cheering "come to UMASS Amherst" |
25 |
| Total |
458 |
| Prorated total |
25.4 |
| Cornell | |
| College run ice creamery that has a yearly contest for students to invent the best new flavor |
50 |
| Major traffic on campus |
-25 |
| Way cool gorges |
50 |
| 100 different majors |
100 |
| Disparate, random mix of architectures |
-25 |
| ranked 14th on US news and world report |
86 |
| Have an annual Dragon Day where they burn a life size Dragon on campus |
10 |
| Ranked 12th in World at ARWU |
88 |
| Funny, engaging student tour guide who said she was a "coxswain" without wincing |
75 |
| Decent college town |
25 |
| Eric and Cathy Haines live nearby |
25 |
| Ivy League |
50 |
| Total |
509 |
| Prorated Total |
11.1 |
| RPI | |
| Bob Willis graduated from RPI |
100 |
| Has a freshman dorm named "Hall hall" |
5 |
| Modern art is a engineering marvel that looks like the "tree of pain" from Hyperion |
25 |
| Computer center is a converted chapel, still with stained glass windows… "At RPI, we worship technology" |
30 |
| Ranked 51-75 in ARWU world universities for engineering |
15 |
| Ranked 44th in US News and World Report |
56 |
| Kick-ass student union |
100 |
| Located in Troy |
-25 |
| Quiet campus |
50 |
| New biotech building, projected "home of the brain eating zombie virus" |
25 |
| New Performing arts center |
25 |
| All sorts of impressive statistics in the orientation that I can't remember but which say RPI is "Nouveau Ivy League" |
50 |
| 1.3 billion in donations for all sorts of cool new stuff |
50 |
| Amos Eaton and Rip Van Rensselaer conceived of the University when they met in jail |
20 |
| Control systems class flies radio controlled blimps around the gymnasium as part of the class |
20 |
| Total |
546 |
| Prorated total |
12.1 |