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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]WashU, Rice, and Emory are fine. They are good schools for a lot of kids. But they simply not better or more prestigious than any Ivies, including Cornell. Cornell consistently outranks all of the aforementioned schools in global rankings, as well as in other national rankings outside of USNWR. As well as trumps them in terms of public perceptions and lay prestige.[/quote]

Why do people insist on being slaves to the rankings? Take a look at the criteria and the weighting used in USNWR and tell me honestly that they're what you would use. Then go take a look at the Common Data Set for each college being discussed in this thread, and you'll realize there's virtually no difference in academics between them on the data reported there. And if you haven't read the most important study ever done on the unimportance of going to a brand-name school, take a look at this.....

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1871566

Relax! And stop passing on your anxieties to your kids. If they're smart and hard-working, they're going to have the same opportunities for happiness and success regardless of whether they go to an amazing 'most selective' college or an amazing 'slightly less selective' college.[/quote]

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