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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Rankings help people who don't have any idea how to judge schools or even have much first-hand knowledge of colleges to  sort through the endless choices. If you have a top student, much of what goes into the rankings is irrelevant and you know that there are many schools that can serve your child well. I don't worry that my DC will drop out of college so small differences in graduation rates are meaningless. While I want my DC to go to an diverse school (economically, and ethnically) with lots of financial aid, we don't get any so it we are not personally affected. My DC is a humanities student, so the quality of the STEM departments is a lot less important than the quality of the traditional liberal arts departments and the caliber of DC's classmates in those majors.  [/quote]

Thoughtful approach, though many (certainly nowhere near all) high caliber students do tend to choose well-regarded (ranked) institutions. And a high percentage of students change majors so it’s a risk to consider departmental excellence in a vacuum. [/quote]

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