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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Blame the USNWR rankings and how schools feel the need to chase rankings. I've worked at two area universities (no, won't say which ones). Both use/used merit aid to entice students whose stats would help elevate numbers used in rankings. It frustrates students who are too "rich" (mc) to afford need-based aid but too poor to be able to fully pay--hence, lots of loans or strategic selection based on cost. I'm so tired of seeing the internal acrobatics. It could be a sliding scale based on ability to pay or schools could adopt true-cost tuition rates instead of inflating tuition to be able to offer seductive discounts/scholarships.

Please do not get me started on how one guy basically started the USNWR rankings to sell magazines but now has a thumb firmly controlling this rat race, which values and prioritizes a lot of things that have nothing to do--see "yield protect"--with the quality of education, faculty, or students and changes criteria on whims. [/quote]

Same with diamond rings. All you need is a person who creates a need and then humans flock around whatever it is.

Diamonds are rocks. There is no reason they should be important, except that a company wanted to sell diamonds and changed everyone’s mind about them. And that thinking is used to this day…

Same with USWNR.

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