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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is also interesting because more than anything else it truly highlights how rankings do not matter when you get down to the individual student level. When you look at the factors that go into various ranking systems, you always find things the don't apply to you or don't matter to you, and that always renders that ranking useless on the individual level.

Similarly, no matter how brilliant a student may be (since rankings are often correlated with where the brightest students are expected to want to go), it is quite possible that Berkeley and Harvard and Williams would be terrible learning environments that do not serve that individual well for one reason or another. Berkeley may be too big, Harvard may not be the best in the area the student wishes to pursue, Amherst may not meet the families financial need, and so on.[/quote]

Agreed. It's still early, but I just scrolled through the list and saw several of the schools my DS was accepted at ranked higher than the one he chose. However, the school he picked felt right to him, a place where he feels comfortable fitting in. It's so different reading the list when your kids is happy with a choice regardless of ranking.[/quote]

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