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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thankfully, no.

US News shares a great deal of information beyond the rankings which form the basis for reasonable comparison among hundreds of colleges and universities.

US News provides both objective & subjective information about schools. How one uses or misuses that information is an individual matter.[/quote]

Most of that info is available from sources like College Navigator. The only data USNWR adds is their bogus reputation survey.[/quote]

I don't want to navigate 3000 schools
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You don't have to navigate 3000 schools. College Navigator has a lot of filters -- figure by geography, a few majors of interest, preferred setting (rural, suburban, city), size, an acceptance range, minimum SAT scores and you pretty quickly can have a focused list to look at more closely. I do wish they would add a filter for retention and graduation rates because those were important filters in our initial searches but you can export a list and that will have those fields to sort by.[/quote]

This does mean you have to think about what is important to you vs. letting USNWR digest the data and tell you what they think is best based on their weighting decisions.[/quote]

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