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[quote=Anonymous]I initially thought OP was complaining about people who obsess over rankings, which is fine by me.

But her title says the opposite: she's tired of people saying that ANY [these are OP's original caps] old school is "a good school."

So in the end, I'm irritated with OP. OP, what is a "good" school, then? How do we guide our snowflakes in their college choices? You offer one criteria: it should have good teachers. Frankly, you could say that most colleges today have good teachers, because there are tons of great PhDs minted every year and they're all fighting desperately for few teaching jobs. But don't get me started on class size or the distinction between teaching ability and putting out tenure-worthy research.

Then OP goes on to trash the USNWR rankings, which isn't a huge contribution to moving the DCUM debate forward, because  I think pretty much everybody here already thinks the USNWR rankings are over-rated anyway. Then OP winds up with some sort of insinuation that every time somebody on DCUM writes that "school X is good" it must be because we're all slaves to USNWR and not because, I dunno, we know people who had good experiences there, or we know the school's reputation in our own areas of work, or some other reason that we didn't bother to spell out for OP's benefit. So what's left? Some sanctimony about OP's husband and daughter. Thanks for nothing, OP![/quote]

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