Is WashU declining?

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Anonymous wrote:It declined in ranking bc they stopped counting things like student teacher ratio and penalized schools for having too many 1%ers. That may drop the ranking but certainly not the education. I’d rather have access to professors any day.

I agree. New ranking system elevated state schools and lowered schools with rich kids. Social mobility factor doesn’t say anything about quality of education.

It killed Wake Forest and Tulane.

Most of the ranking factors have little to do with quality of education, but no one was annoyed before they scrutinized these massive wealth hogs. Princeton is still number 1, maybe washu should take notes and not make excuses

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Anonymous wrote:lol...US News doesn't count selectivity, SAT scores or class size in their new rankings. Perhaps the number of Pell grant recipients is important to some prospective parents or students, but I'd guess most don't think that has any bearing on the academic quality of a school.

I’ve said this many times on these boards as to those rankings. Don’t be a sheep…learn how the rankings changed their priorities before relying on them. 99.99% would care more about class size than Pell grant recipients.

Well…you can only tell people to rely on the 2023 rankings for so long…the new rankings will come out soon and if WashU doesn’t move, then you can’t say “just rely on 2-year old rankings”

No, but you could say "don't rely on rankings at all...be a critical thinker."

How would you even create your college list if you were going to ignore all rankings and be a “critical thinker”.

Is there a master database you can search by all the criteria you mention?

The New York Times has an interactive tool where you can choose and weight the factors that you care about. Then it provides a list based on those factors/weights.

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Anonymous wrote:St.louis sucks I agree, but why all of a sudden. Was it the US news drop?

It's the price and the relatively stingy financial aid.