Do US News Rankings Have any Impact on Admissions?
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Anonymous
| Just shocked how people are so gullible and think US news is something important. Just shocked on the stupid ppl on this board. |
Anonymous
Agree or disagree, it has an impact. Otherwise, Vanderbilt would come out with a statement that last couple of years about it. I was listening to an interview with and admission dean that said admissions deans will publicly say they don't care about rankings but they know where the schools sits. Schools don't waste a moment before updating their websites and collateral trumpeting their 'rank'. On a podcast, an international admission consultant noted the sudden uptick in interest for Rutgers even though people knew next to nothing about the school or even how to pronounce it. So, yeah. Some people actually doing think it is important and US News uses it to stay relevant. People care about rankings. It's why we see it everywhere. It's why there is some much interest in academic stats. People want to rank |
Anonymous
| ^ *would'nt* come out with a statement.. |
Anonymous
Agree 100% |
Anonymous
Just shocked how you appear on any thread discussing rankings to parrot the same nonsense. The vast majority of American (and international) families use rankings as one tool for choosing colleges. I'm afraid you'll have to sulk in the corner alone. |
Anonymous
Exactly. PP is the same malcontent who can't stand it when people discuss rankings. Pretty clear his/her preferred school has tanked. |
Anonymous
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I don’t think they do, applications continue to go up at the many private colleges that dropped in the rejiggered rankings last year.
Similarly, I don’t see a lot of students adding Davis and Merced to their list. |
Anonymous
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I agree that the whole concept of ranking is questionable, because the matrix of what makes a school a good match for Student A or or Student B or Student C will vary a whole lot. But whether or not you agree with US News's methodologies, it's an inescapable part of the college landscape.
Once we narrowed down the type of school my own kid seemed drawn to (in his case, a liberal arts college with good sciences), we found the "Fiske Guide to Colleges" a pretty helpful guide. |
Anonymous
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US News is very important. I see it in my job searches (top 60 school) and my kids (top 15).
Especially if non-Ivy, Stanford, or Duke, Chicago. Ivy really gives you a leg up whether that Ivy is 11 or 13. Ivy is Ivy. People who claim not to care are those (1) who didn't go to one, (2) whose kids can't get in, (3) don't want to pay for private colleges (or can't afford to). Ivy is Ivy. The world is an arms race. |
Anonymous
I went to an Ivy and T10, same with dh, and couldn’t disagree more. It’s people who didn’t go to these schools who overrate them, particularly first generation immigrants. |
Anonymous
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My kids don’t even look at the U.S. News rankings. They use sites line Naviance, collegevine, and unigo.
Employers and grad schools have set views of colleges that don’t change from year to year as U.S. News does yet another reshuffling. The one factor I’ve seen that changes recruiting patterns is where company leadership is sending their kids. That’s why I find it humorous when people criticize some private college as being a rich kid school, that is actually a positive attribute. |
Anonymous
| Of course it does. |
Anonymous
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Back in the olden days, before the internet gave prospective students and their parents a surfeit of information about colleges, sure, US News was relevant.
Now, not so much. |
Anonymous
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Look at how few news articles have been written about this latest US News ranking. In the past, there would be dozen and dozens of mainstream media articles.
What do we hear now? Crickets... |
Anonymous
Why do you even try to post nonsense? Google USNWR rankings and news.Thousands of articles. |