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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]

Sure, but the kind of families looking at top 30 type schools are generally pretty well informed. And they'll largely be aware of the changes in methodology at US News that have caused rankings to swing so wildly in the last year or so. For most, social mobility and equity don't figure too prominently in their decision making, which makes US News less useful than it once was. Which is a good thing overall. Fit is the only things that really matters.  [/quote]

The vast majority of families are looking beyond top 30 schools.  [/quote]

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