Cheserek to Oregon [really]

Don't think of it as cheserek choosing Oregon...think of it as him choosing Nike. College is a brief prep phase before his primary goal...running professionally..

Yeah in the flotrack interview, the kid couldn't have sounded less enthusiastic. I'm not sure if this kid is just looking for a warm meal and a place to stay or if he actually wants to be a duck.

All these Oregon haters lol just goes to show that Oregon is the best team in the Country Men's and women's combined.

UO is not on the Shanghai 100 wrote:

Click

http://www.shanghairanking.com/ARWU2012.html

53 US schools made the Shanghai Top 100, UO is not one of them

Since they split areas with Oregon State, the two areas they list for Oregon they are in 100-150 [Social Sciences (SOC)] and 150-200 [Natural Sciences and Mathematics (SCI)]

Here are three sets from your preferred metric. Note that in the first, they have Oregon State but not Oregon; since they are really very equal schools, Oregon must just miss the first group. Thus,

Group 1 Just marginally better than Oregon

Group 2 Oregon equal or marginal better than these

Group 3 Oregon better than these

Group 4 Oregon much better than these

Some notables from Group 2: Maryland; SUNY-Buffalo;

Some notables from Group 3: BYU, Oklahoma; Syracuse; USUNY-Albany;

1 151-200 Colorado State University

1 151-200 Dartmouth College

1 151-200 George Mason University

1 151-200 Iowa State University

1 151-200 North Carolina State University - Raleigh

1 151-200 Oregon Health and Science University

1 151-200 Oregon State University

1 151-200 Peking University

1 151-200 State University of New York at Stony Brook

1 151-200 The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center

1 151-200 University of Bern

1 151-200 University of Koeln

1 151-200 University of Maryland, Baltimore

1 151-200 University of Nebraska - Lincoln

1 151-200 University of Tennessee - Knoxville

2 201-300 Brandeis University

2 201-300 Florida State University

2 201-300 Simon Fraser University

2 201-300 State University of New York at Buffalo

2 201-300 The George Washington University

2 201-300 The University of Connecticut - Storrs

2 201-300 Trinity College Dublin

2 201-300 University of Colorado at Denver

2 201-300 University of Durham

2 201-300 University of Exeter

2 201-300 University of Notre Dame

2 201-300 University of Oregon

2 201-300 University of York

3 301-400 Brigham Young University

3 301-400 City University of New York City College

3 301-400 Clemson University

3 301-400 Georgetown University

3 301-400 Kansas State University

3 301-400 San Diego State University

3 301-400 State University of New York at Albany

3 301-400 Syracuse University

3 301-400 Temple University

3 301-400 Tulane University

3 301-400 University College Dublin

3 301-400 University of Oklahoma - Norman

3 301-400 University of Rhode Island

3 301-400 University of Vermont

3 301-400 Wake Forest University

4 401-500 Auburn University

4 401-500 Boston College

4 401-500 University of Arkansas at Fayetteville

4 401-500 University of Graz

4 401-500 University of Louisville

4 401-500 Utah State University

4 401-500 Victoria University of Wellington

Interesting.Shanghai ARWU 2012 does not have enough citations and references to rank Oregon State University, University of Oregon, nor Oregon Health and Science University.But they lump Oregon State University, and Oregon Health and Science University into the 151-200 world group, and University of Oregon into the 201-300 world group.

If you google for UOs Spring 2013 'schedule of classes' it reflects UP's primary mission as a teacher's college.

OSU is mandated to serve as an engineering and research school.

OHSU is mandated as the State's only public medical/dental school.

Thus, State funds for research and medicine are concentrated at OSU and OHSU.

Bottom Line: Oregon is in the 151 - 200 group, out of 500 total that they list. So, as in the US News listing, Oregon is in the top 1/3 of all the listed universities. Prestigious?...perhaps not. Highly Regarded? Definitely. Of course there are a few LR posters who have their own agendas to say that Oregon isn't Highly Regarded. US Universities are tops unisversally. To be in the top 1/3 of US Universities is pretty damned impressive in most people's books. Of course, we go back to the LR poster, who struggled at Bofunk JC for his associates degree.

On the Shanghai 2012 list, the University of Oregon is not ranked but it is lumped into the 201-300 group.

Shanghai 2012 was not provided enough citations, awards, papers, etc. to determine a more exact placement for the Univerity of Oregon.

Placement in the range of 201 to 300, out of 500 schools surveyed, makes the University of Oregon an "average" school.

Not quite "highly regarded".

Hope this helps.

Hmmm, I thought this thread was about collegiate runners going after a bachelor's degree. Explain to me how the Shanghai report in any way ranks undergraduate programs.

Enlighten all of us since you obviously understand the Shanghai report much better than any of us. Jealous much??

My homeroom teacher emailed this stats list:

Shanghai 2012

150 US Western States Colleges

by Percentile

99 Stanford

97 Berkeley

97 Cal Tech

97 UCLA

91 UCSD

91 UW

89 UCSF

83 CU

83 UCSB

79 UCI

79 USC

78 UCD

70 UA

69 ASU

69 Utah

64-55 UCR UCSC

54-44 OSU OHSU CoSt

43-27 UO WSU UNM CuDn

27-15 SDSU MtU BYU

15-0 UtSt MtSt

UCLA is at the 93% percentile

maybe the kid just likes Oregon

this has to be the most tiresome thread I've ever seen

a good runner wants to go to college and run

let it go

How can anyone be enthusiastic about becoming an indentured servant?

27-15 BYU

Shanghai hatin on Morons

BYU isn't primarily a research university. They get down- graded because their unusual approach is to teach kids how to get a degree, mature and a job afterwards. Novel concept isn't it?

BYU and WCCs make you take 3 classes of hate classes for an undergra degree but still get taxpayer assistance which should be banned.

Oregon men will not make the top four in cross country for a long time.

What's so novel about 'teach to the test' ?

BYU isn't primarily a research university. They get down- graded because their unusual approach is to teach kids how to get a degree, mature and a job afterwards. Novel concept isn't it?

Really Cheserek,Leigang,Elkhaim,Geydon,Stinson Oregon should be loaded next year. Geydon will transfer to Oregon starting next year that's a solid top 5 with tons of others stud Cross Country runners that Oregon has.

Al Sal is a Roman wrote:

long way to improve academic facilities and increase resources to improve programs and hire even better educators.

Completely false.

The State of Oregon mandates that UO serve as a teacher's college i.e. educate teachers for the state's elementary, secondary, and parochial school systems.

If you google for UOs Spring 2013 'schedule of classes' it reflects UP's primary mission as a teacher's college.

OSU is mandated to serve as an engineering and research school.

OHSU is mandated as the State's only public medical/dental school.

Thus, State funds for research and medicine are concentrated at OSU and OHSU.

Your entire post makes no sense at all, and is not a refutation of my comments at all.

And if you look at the history of Bowerman - Knight - Nike Money going to non athletics projects on campus, you'll see huge amounts of money going to Libraries, Biz school, and other academic uses.