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Anonymous
This |
Anonymous
| ^^ one of top 30 |
Anonymous
| Why the f*ck is there a 460 post thread on Richmond? What’s next? A 500 post thread on Randolph Macon? |
Anonymous
| We soon will all be living in a world where high stats kids with perfect ACTs will just have to settle for community college. |
Anonymous
Richmond is a top 25 LAC. Sorry your kid didn't get in. |
Anonymous
Funny Nothing wrong with Randolph Macon |
Anonymous
Not sure the posts on this thread are a sign of UR’s popularity with the DCUM crowd. Think it’s actually the opposite. |
Anonymous
| Lots of hate on the thread. Strange to see the UR carnival barkers now citing it as proof that Richmond is legit. It’s not. |
Anonymous
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Anyone else notice that UR doesn’t rank anywhere in the Us News’ top 70 for undergrad teaching, yet somehow manages to rank 22 overall?!? What the h*ll is the US News measuring? Isn’t undergrad teaching kind of important? I would think yes.
https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-liberal-arts-colleges/undergraduate-teaching?_sort=rank&_sortDirection=asc |
Anonymous
Interesting. The US News rankings are crap. |
Anonymous
Unfortunately, I'd need to disentangle your multiple assumptions here to offer a meaningful response. Nonetheless, for those who may be interested, I'll note that she is a non-native speaker of Italian who picked up a second major in Italian at Richmond. Her reading level, then, as you noted, would be expected. The point, however, was that she reached a level in an elective sequence that some posters, perhaps including you, who have been critical of Richmond in this topic are unlikely to have achieved themselves. |
Anonymous
| Take away Richmond’s #22 ranking in the US News - and no one seems to know what the US News is actually measuring, certainly not undergrad teaching - and UR is a no name regional school charging $50k a year with nothing much to offer. |
Anonymous
Yep. Everyone is like WM dropped. Well, no sh*t. USNWR stopped measuring undergrad teaching and a couple other areas where WM was top 10-15– and that to me are critical. Wake and Tulane got hit for the same reasons. And they added weight to things like added Pell grants, where WM lags as an expensive state school. I’ll go against the grain and say, it’s fine to use rankings— IF you understand the methodology and agree that the things the methodology measures are important to getting a good education/ college experience. Too many people tout rankings they like and never check methodology. The old USNWR criteria were better, but too many schools had figured out how to game them. It was time to shakeup thinks like filling 80% oof the class with ED to increase yield (hi Bates) and strongly encouraging kids with zero chance to apply to decrease percent admitted. The new ones are just bad. Princeton Review is nice because they rank in individual areas: “happiest students” “segregated campus” etc. so you can filter what matters to your kid, at least in term so fcampus life. I have an IR major, so top Fulbright producers mattered to her (sigh and now she’s a junior, had started to get things together to apply and Trump stopped them. Ugghh). Quit relying on USNWR to chose your kids college unless you have read the new methodology and are on board with it. |
Anonymous
| Unfortunately it’s now $88k a year, not $50k. But I agree with the rest. |
Anonymous
| UR is the BC of the South. Overrated, expensive, and drawing from a very narrow social band. It sure has its partisans though. |