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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The LAC rankings are set to change massively. Of course, Williams is USNews golden child, but every other position is supposed to be moving around.[/quote]

To be honest, their LAC methodology doesn't really make sense to me or prioritize what an individual family cares most about. My DD cares most about teacher quality, class size, student experience, and variety and depth of courses in the area she's most interested in. She's less concerned about social mobility for herself, etc. She's also interested in balanced genders and visible diversity (she's a POC and she doesn't want to be an extreme minority).

So the rankings won't inform her choices much at all or her friends. Her bff is planning to ED to Middlebury despite it dropping pretty significantly in USNWR's LAC rankings last year. Her friend just doesn't care about their change in criteria, she's going to make the best decision for fit for herself without needing a magazine to guide her.  [/quote]
It's never made sense. The most applied to and popular LACs are never at the top, because the USNews ranking boils down to highest endowment and best financial aid program: Williams obviously wins with its $3bn endowment and all grants program/buy the book, but that doesn't inform us of what most LAC parents are interested in which is outcomes, professor teaching quality, scholarship, and retention, class size, research spending and percent of the students taking up independent study, fellowship attainment, and, for some, study abroad.[/quote]

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