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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In the olden days, US News mattered.

It has jumped the shark and with so much more information available to parents today, it is but a very small part of the college selection process.

With its new metric changing to valuing social equity factors over academic criteria, that has hurt what little relevance it has had.[/quote]

Wrong.  It still matters very much to the average American family looking at different colleges.  Most people don’t care about the methodology that has so many DCUMers clutching their pearls.  [/quote]

Every year the media interest in US News goes down.  This year it cratered.  Schools used to tout their inclusion in some list almost immediately upon publication.  Local news would cover how great/bad a certain college did.

[b]Look at the dearth in media coverage this year.[/b]

Their influence has been declining for years.  The internet brings vastly more information today than 20 years ago.  Changing their methodology to create whacko results like UC Merced being a top school, etc. caused more mockery of the publication.  [/quote]

False. Google US News college rankongs. I went to page 29 (x18 news reports a page) and have lost interest. Check facts before you post[/quote]

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