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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]  Anyone reading the first line or two of your posts and those of the person you pedantically condescended to will understand why I said what I said.  [/quote]

Not if they can actually, you know, read.

[i]my first post:  College rankings aren't about bragging rights but about more resources, a more capable student body, and greater post graduate prospects.  I don't think it's a reasonable decision to set all that aside - and i think the concept of "fit" is exaggerated (many colleges can fit, and "the right fit" can sometimes be just a euphemism for avoiding character-building challenges.

response post:   The rankings are only a guide and really are bogus in many cases.  For instance: the undergrad engineering rankings for USNWR are "based on surveys of deans and senior faculty members at engineering programs". It's a popularity contest.

my response:   okay, sure, all the different ranking systems are bogus and the products of behind the scenes conspiracies (despite the fact that they explicitly lay out their criteria), a short visit is the best way to gauge what a school will be like for four years, and your 17/18 year old has the best judgment about an institution they have no firsthand experience of.  Or  in the real world: - ranking systems look (in exhaustive detail) at the qualifications of students who attend, the resources available to them, and the post-graduate outcomes for each school[/i]

The first sentences of my two comments explicitly reference "colleges" and "schools" rather than programs, so I don't know how anyone could surmise that either of my comments was about the ranking of individual programs rather than the rankings for entire schools.   You got confused (or were too lazy to read back to the prior page), which isn't a crime, but you also tried to play "gotcha" and rather snarkily accused me of trying to change the subject when in fact it was the person who was responding to me who was trying to change the subject, by picking an isolated example (as a rebuttal) that wasn't even part of the universe i was referencing.  It's probably also worth noting that my initial comment simply provided my thoughts and didn't comment on anyone else's comment -- but when someone tried to explicitly quote and rebut my comment with falsehoods ('college rankings are bogus') and mischaracterizations of what I wrote ("you shouldn't force a kid into a decision") I was certainly entitled to respond in kind.

And your complaints about my messages' tone are pretty amusing given the tone of yours -- but that seems to be how people here on DCUM respond when they realize they've lost the argument on substance, so i assume we're done.  Whatever.   Suggest in the future you read more carefully before trying to show how clever you are at other people's expense.[/quote]

I stand by my comments.[/quote]

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