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[quote=Anonymous]I agree rankings in general are bunk, and this is coming from someone who has constructed indices although not for education. That said, it looks like some of the changes might be an improvement. They're not just increasing the weight of SAT scores as PP mentioned. They're also increasing weights for things like the school's graduation rate, which is an important measure of performance IMO. And because weights have to sum to 100%, they reduced the weights for class rank and the "peer opinion" or whatever it was called, which I always thought was particularly bogus. Is it perfect now? Heck no. But I think at least some of the changes are going in the right direction.[/quote]
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