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To: GuinnessGuy who wrote (124027)	8/11/2010 7:36:55 PM
From: Knighty Tin	Respond to of 132070

There are plenty of frat rats in California, too. The USNWR ratings are for undergraduate only and private schools rate much higher than public schools. Not one public school breaks into the Top 20. If you count graduate study, the public schools in California and a couple of other states do much better. U.C. Berkeley ranks in the top 5 of Every PH.D program they offer. Their professional schools are also highly regarded, though UC San Francisco Medical is highly rated, but not connected to Berkeley. Texas also scores better on the graduate side. The professional schools are first rate at UT. Heck, George W. Bush was denied admission the U.T. Law School, while he was admitted to Harvard Business. And A&M has a great graduate engineering system. colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com Missouri schools rank much lower than Texas schools on this list. I am only picking on Texas because I live here. When I lived in Kansas City, I always thought the U. of Missouri was a pretty good school. Some things can't be compared. For example, how do you compare U. of Virginia with Swarthmore? Both offer college degrees, but they are totally different academic animals who achieve excellence in different ways. And many students who would do well at one would not do well at the other.