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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ranking college makes no sense at all. What is the point?[/quote]

Coming from a different country, rankings have been useful in understanding the college landscape. Of course they're not meant to be the only consideration, but they help give a general sense of where things stand. I never would have known, for example, that Rice is a very good university.[/quote]

+1 in my country we only knew a few American schools like MIT, Harvard, Caltech, Duke, Stanford, and a few others. There are many more great universities that we didn’t know about until coming here.[/quote]

So are all the rankings obsessed posters on here immigrants?  They rely on the rankings to learn about schools they don’t hear about in movies or overseas? I never understood the obsession with USNWR, but this makes more sense. [/quote]

Yes, because immigrants are the ones with tens of thousands of dollars to spend on private college counselors and test prep resources to get their kids into the top schools. Not to mention the hundreds of thousands spent on getting kids into top schools through niche sports. Or straight up buying seats at top universities as seen through Varsity Blues. Only immigrants do all that, no white people would ever be that obsessed!  :roll:  :roll:  :roll: [/quote]

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