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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]USNWR ranks service academies amongst national LACs, but this makes no sense given their specialized purpose, the narrow opportunities for application, and their relatively low test scores.

Perhaps, they excel at upward social mobility, but the quality of student - based on test scores - pales in comparison to the schools they’re typically ranked amongst (LAC top 10). For example, most service academies have SAT 25/75 around 1200/1400. That means the top 25% of academy kids are the 25th percentile of the schools they’re ranked amongst. Makes no sense.

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I agree 100% it makes no sense.  Because of their specialized purpose.  (Makes no difference if the SAT scores are like scores at top LACs or not.)  Service academies are impressive but are only of interest to people who want to join the military.

US News has national universities and LACs on separate lists but those have much more in common than service academies and LACs have in common.

I think there should be a list for impressive but very specialized schools.  Could have the service academies, music schools like Juliard, art schools like RISD, etc.
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I also agree 100%.

Service academies, schools of music, & small, highly specialized programs like CalTech, minig schools, naval architecture schools, etc. should be ranked or notated separately in a special category. Ranking CalTech with National Universities is ridiculous; it's like just ranking a separate school/college/or department of a National University.[/quote]

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