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Reply to "With US News Being Challenged by Top Schools, Does it Make More Sense to Combine Rankings?"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]But why? Can't you just find a list of quality schools (like Princeton Review's Best Colleges in America) and choose a list that matches your child's grades, major, geographic and size preferences, Greek or no, urban or no, etc. Basically, fit. Feeling the need to KNOW the rank seems so status conscious. It also is not a good gauge of quality. None of the lists you included, for example, rate best teaching. Think about that. [/quote] +1 for the most part they are evaluating inputs -- the quality of the students (test scores) or how much money the college has. Not actual results. What would be more interesting would be large scale surveys of alumni but that would be massively expensive to do it on a large enough scale. One thing some colleges share is their NSSE results (National Survey of Student Engagement) https://nsse.indiana.edu/nsse/. You have to look on a college's institutional research page to find it, if available. Or ask for it. [/quote]
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