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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it's wonderful that colleges are generous with money and Pell Grants for those in need of financial assistance. I don't see how that factor makes a school more academically superior to any other school.[/quote]
It's easy enough to educate wealthy kids and to have them go on to high paying jobs and become movers and shakers.

Much harder to that for kids who don't come from wealthy families.  That's why IMO, that ranking kind of makes sense.  The vast majority of people in this country aren't from the 5%.[/quote]

So the bottom 95% gets financial aid? Good to know, we're 92nd percentile.[/quote]
no, that's not what I"m saying. The point is that a lot of the wealthy families (typical DCUM posters) don't care about how well a school can educate the non wealthy.   But, the vast majority of this country are not typical wealthy DCUM posters, and a ranking that looks like how well it can educate and provide a spring board for such students on towards a good career and future is much more applicable to the rest of the 95%ers than a ranking that purely looks at what $80K/year buys.[/quote]

Agreed.  And c’mon, the rankings used to be biased in favor of factors that favor small rich private schools and now the factors are more balanced.  Can anyone really quibble with a Berkeley or a UCLA being ahead of a Vanderbilt or a Wash U?  Really?  [/quote]

I would take Vandy and WashU over UCLA and Berkeley any day. I’m not instate California and would also not want to sit in a class with 1000 other students[/quote]

Well that’s great but it doesn’t make either better schools.  [/quote]

Sounds like I hit a sore spot. I’d rather not sit in a huge room where the TA teaches [/quote]

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