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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If I want to be an electrical engineer (or any engineer for that matter), I'm going to Cornell over Chicago and it isn't close.[/quote]

And, odds are, you wouldn’t even apply to UChicago, so your preference wouldn’t be reflected in Parchment (even if you had contributed to its database).  Lots of these decisions get made at the application stage (or even early action/decision stage).  In my HH, Chicago “won” head to head with Harvard and Princeton (DC was legacy at both schools) for EA. Uchicago was DC’s first choice, DC got in, DC accepted.  It’s not just colleges making decisions — it’s applicants.  And lots of their choices get made before May 1st.  So head-to-head competition is more hypothetical than real in most cases.

In the end, why care about other HS students’ rank ordering of various schools?  What matters is the preferences of the individual applicant.  It may also make sense to compare outcomes (job prospects, grad/prof school admissions) if you can get relevant enough data, but how on earth does what other HS seniors think about the comparative attractiveness of a variety of colleges they’ve never attended matter?[/quote]

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