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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]First, then paragon data is not the best.  But Hopkins beats out most of the schools ranked 11-20, including Vandy, on cross admits.  It’s very difficult for any school to do well agains the Ivys, Stanford and Duke in cross admits.[/quote]

Yes I agree it's hard for any school to beat out those schools, so that's not an issue in itself, but the magnitude by which we lose cross-admits is kind of shocking. I get that Stanford and Duke are better than many Ivies, but losing 80+% of cross-admits to them is frankly disappointing, especially since we've been ranked around Duke (and now higher) for a few years now on US News.[/quote]

I understand your grievance, but a high US News ranking does not directly correlate to what schools kids and their parents prefer. This has been shown time-and-time again. There was a lengthy period where Princeton was ranked #1 and MIT was ranked #7, and MIT still handily beat Princeton for cross-admits. Even last year, when Columbia was ranked #2 and Stanford was ranked #6, Stanford was still winning close to 80% of cross-admits from Columbia. The people "in the know" who truly understand which schools are better than others are the majority of the accepted students to these top schools, and their understanding often doesn't correlate with what US News says. Instead their knowledge comes from generations of information passed down or by direct observations in industry/leadership positions - US News is taken most literally by people new to elite education in America who don't have this prior knowledge to rely on. Instead the "people in the know" understand schools like Duke and Caltech are better than what their US News rankings are, while other schools are not really as good as their US News ranking.[/quote]

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