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Are US News rankings making DC rethink college list?
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Anonymous
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U Chicago still ranked very high on all the academics and innovations but they ranked very low on social movements.
Same as Dartmouth. It might be a great opportunity with this new ranking to get to some colleges that used to be very difficult like tufts and wake forest. |
Anonymous
| No. We don’t care what these rankings are. |
Anonymous
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FFS, no. The biggest problem with college rankings is SOMEONE else is telling you WHAT is important and HOW important in evaluating a college It’s utter nonsense, and a paradigm of intellectual laziness.
As an example, USNWR tweaked it to favor Pell grant admissions and graduation. Laudable goals for universities, to be sure. But how many in the DCUM world really care about that as far as their own kid’s concerns? If, eg, Harvard were to drop in this metric, people on DCUM wouldn’t want Harvard any less. No, instead, what you’re doing is using rankings to justify schools you already liked or to avoid ones you don’t for whatever reason. Northeastern climbs but they are “gaming the system” or “cheating”. Chicago falls and they “never deserved to be that high anyway”. The biggest thing most of you care about is how it will sound to your peer group. Just start being honest with yourself; you’ll be happier for it. |
Anonymous
| My kid doesn't even know the new rankings came out. How many kids follow it that closely? Unless the nutcase parents are sharing. |
Anonymous
| USNWR will not even be a consideration. Maybe they are relevant for first generation kids? The things I care about as a parent paying the bills and my kid cares about as a student were eliminated from the USNWR rankings. Pell grants, percent first generation, graduation rate for Pell grant recipients, etc. have nothing to do with the quality of the education. We are full pay, already in the UMC and parents have graduate degrees, so social mobility means nothing to us. Already in the 1%. We care about student class size, professors with PHDs, how many kids were in the top 10% of their class - all the things that were eliminated from consideration. |
Anonymous
Exactly. |
Anonymous
| My kid is still applying to Tulane but the new ranking bothers me, mainly bc before I figured that although we (parents) had concerns about the school we figured that maybe we were missing some great things about it. The ranking made us give the school the benefit of the doubt. Same with Wake. |
Anonymous
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My kid doesn’t read [magazines] so no, I don’t think he’s aware and it’s not affecting his decision making. Now if a prominent tiktok admissions guru had a bad thing to say about a school, it might be a different story.
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Anonymous
Haha, yes, unfortunately, my senior still thinks TikTok is a valid source! |
Anonymous
| Not at all. |
Anonymous
But it’s making me rethink USNWR  !
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Anonymous
So true!!! |
Anonymous
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Nope. I mainly used it to come up with a initial list of 70 80 schools.
It's useful for that. |
Anonymous
| This hasn’t affected DD’s list - she is Tulane all the way. |
Anonymous
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I can't take USNWR seriously since they refuse to give Bozo's Clown College of the Midwest the respect it deserves year after year.
But seriously y'all who cares |