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[quote=Anonymous][quote] If anything, it would be better to go back some sort or tier rating. The quibbling between #20 and #21 is silly and creates undue stress.[/quote] Yes, agree, but these vexed rankings don't merely create more stress but actually mislead students (and their parents) into false assumptions about education quality. The underlying distinctions are minor (bordering on infinitesimal); they may be based on misinformation (eg Columbia), or on shady admissions practices (yield management rejections of qualified students, telling low-score admits to take freshman fall off so they don't bring down the matriculating student GPA, etc); and they may be based on a school boosting its overall ranking by (real) investments in specialty programs that boost their ranking but are of limited interest to most students. General tiers would be much better.[/quote]
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