How well does the US News rankings correlate with actual prestige?

[Anonymous]

The rankings are all over the place. I just go by incoming SAT scores. The proof is in the scores.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The rankings are all over the place. I just go by incoming SAT scores. The proof is in the scores.

Justice Thomas??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"Prestige" is so subjective. As an example in China, GW is thought of as being almost in the same category as an Ivy.
It is a good school but surely not a match for an Ivy....it is interesting to see how other countries look at our schools, the big H is still seen as the holy grail while many admit they heard of Princeton, go figure.

lol add this to *things GW parents say*

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The rankings are all over the place. I just go by incoming SAT scores. The proof is in the scores.

Lol not even close. All the top schools could admit their entire class with perfect/near perfect scores but have different priorities in terms of scores. After a certain level scores mean jack.

[Anonymous]

It's gives a good rough idea re: difficulty of admission, from most difficult to least.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's gives a good rough idea re: difficulty of admission, from most difficult to least.

Nope. Difficulty of admission does not depend only or even mostly on scores. At most of the top schools, after you hit a certain score other things start to matter. Some top schools care about scores more at the expense of other things. That doesn't make them harder to get in though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Another day, another thread about arbitrary college prestige. Ugh.

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