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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For example, USN&WR says Ruttgers is #41

However real people actually ranked it significantly lower than that, hence not many students especially high stat kids ranked it high and chose it.  Thus it has high acceptance rate, low yield, and full of  1250 SAT kids.

Which reference do you take more seriously the magazine ranking or the real-life ranking by the actions of the real students?
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Rutgers USNWR ranking is appropriate. If you don't like it, sorry. You can ignore the ranking or send your kid to another college. Many to choose from. Private and public.[/quote]

USNWR is an imaginary ranking. It's the most influential reference but still an imaginary ranking among many.
You can trust it all you want and think it's appropriate.  It's your opinion and freedom.

At the end like yourself, every single 10 million students make their actual ranking and ultimate decisions based on all sorts of data, information, references(including USNWR), etc.

It turns out that the actual consumers ranked Rutgers much lower hence, it has high acceptance rate, low yield, lower quality cohort.  This is just outcome of actions of the 10 million students in reality which is the real ranking not imaginary.
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Do all Rutgers campuses get blended into the stats? The main campus in New Brunswick is more competitive, always has been. [/quote]

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