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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Everyone wants to reinvent the wheel. Take time to understand the evolution of the USNEWS metrics and you'll appreciate why USNEWS is the only ranking that matters.[/quote]

It only matters to the money makers who perpetuate the lie. USNWR and certain college presidents scratch each other's backs so they both make out in the rankings. The metrics are bogus and manipulated.[/quote]

Actually there have been some scandals where schools manipulated stats to rise in the USNWR ranks, and deans and others ended up resigning.

To my mind, the real scammers are the College Board who sell your kid SATs, APs, and then SAT Subject Tests, and the colleges fall in line and require these tests. And then all the test prep books to go with. The SAT Subject Tests in particular drove me nuts, after my kid had already submitted AP scores in the same or similar subjects, knowing in advance that the school didn't even give AP credit and the only purpose of taking those tests was to demonstrate rigor for the application process. [/quote]

True. The Collegeboard claims to be a nonprofit. I am sure the leader David Coleman is doing just fine as his nonprofit creates a billion dollar industry for test preppers. I looked into test prep for my kid and they wanted $3500. Such a scam. There is nothing fair and equal about the college education process in this country.[/quote]

So "the swamp" extends beyond the DMV? Imagine that.[/quote]

I wish there was some test in say 10th grade that people took once that was impossible to test for that determined the testing portion of college admissions instead of the s%^show we have now[/quote]

You mean like the proprietary tests MoCo magnets use for the high school magnets? They take that in 8th grade though.

Also, kids mature a whole lot between 10th and 12th grades. I know mine did. So maybe have it start of senior year. Then you just have to figure out how to make it neutral by social class (i.e. UMC kids do better on vocab tests because their parents used the words).[/quote]

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