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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Come on people. USNews's change in ranking metrics is terrible need for middle class and upper middle class families who are already getting shafted by the current financial aid evaluation process at these colleges. With the outsized influence this ranking has in driving college behavior, colleges will now move towards filling more seats with Pell Grant recipients and compensate for that budget impact by recruiting more full pay students at the other end. That is really bad news for Average unhooked middle class families. Also now the one thing that have middle class families some edge in merit aid, namely scores and ranks is also being de-emphasized. This will move more dollars from merit to need based aid which is again terrible news for donut hole families[/quote]
This seems likely.[/quote]

I agree. With the potential caveat that US News might have taken things a bridge too far with this latest reconfiguring of its formulae. I feel like some of the top schools have been getting less and less focused on the rankings - finally realizing that it's crazy to base institutional practices on the arbitrary whims of a defunct magazine, in areas that have no demonstrable impact on student success or satisfaction - and that this big change will strengthen that trend. [/quote]

Top schools have always acted “above it all” when it comes to rankings. They resent the fact that USNWR dares to puts non-elite, striver schools like Florida State or Virginia Tech in the same list as Princeton and Dartmouth, even if the Ivies are always ranked much higher. That has never deterred USNWR. It’s the really the middling schools that take USNWR the most seriously because USNWR tries to base their rankings on some degree of objective metrics beyond historical prestige, which gives the little guys a chance to improve.[/quote]

Do you have any idea how idiotic you sound?  Calling solid universities like FSU and VT "strivers" says more about you than it does about those institutions.  I can't decide if you actually graduated from a decent school but ended up a miserable and bitter failure or you always wanted to attend a decent school but couldn't because of qualifications and/or money.  Either way. your posts always read as those of a loser who is far too invested into the college rankings farce.[/quote]

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