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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Like Wake, WM, Vanderbilt, Northeastern, etc, Tulane did not suddenly become a much better college because they hired someone to help them play the USNWR game ten years ago (CWRU and Pitt were also  also played the game well).  Tulane isn’t  better school because they started manipulating the ED numbers to increase yield, for example.  In fact, the y actively hurt kids who needed to see financial aid package and could not ED.

When the new numbers/ methodology hit last year, midsize, expensive privates that were not actively recruiting Pell Grant kids were hurt the most. SAgain— Tulane, NE, Wake, WM (yes, public, but an expensive one).   Especially since USNWR stopped considering average class size, percentage of classes taught by full professors, terminal degrees on the faculty, undergrad teaching reputation etc— which IMO matter a lot more than the percentage of a given class made up of Pell Grant kids.

I’ve know kids who have gone to Tulane since my high school class of 1992. First my peers, then my relatives and my friends and their kids, and now my kids peers. And the average strength of the students admitted doesn’t seem to have changed much. No, they are not “just missed an Ivy” caliber students.  But, they are relatively strong students who often have a “work hard/play hard” mentality. OMO, the caliber of students hasn’t changed in 30 years. What’s changed is the methodology of the rankings.

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Who knew “work hard/play hard” meant get black out drunk for most of your “degree”[/quote]

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