In my analysis, I did a google search for "colleges by student population" and got this as the top link: http://www.happyschoolsblog.com/largest-us-universitie

In my analysis, I did a google search for "colleges by student population" and got this as the top link: http://www.happyschoolsblog.com/largest-us-universities-by-student-population/ http://www.happyschoolsblog.com/largest-us-universities-by-s.... The list was created from 2006 data. One thing to notice, I skipped over Texas A&M and University of South Florida and picked up Penn State (because I'm from Jersey, and half of my high school went there). The TC article article also omits these two schools, and adds in UCLA and USC. (The author is a USC grad herself.) Even if she did find the same list, why also skip over A&M and USF? a more accurate list would have come from more recent data: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_colleges_by_enrollment http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_colleges_... Yes, it's possible, but I think pretty unlikely she'd independently decide to drop the same two schools that I did, assuming she found the same source.