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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wish the USNWR rankings would just go away. They've caused more harm than good over the years. [/quote]

No it was very useful for me to screen out schools and come up with an initial list of colleges for my kids.

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This is a terrible way to create a list of candidate schools.

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Much better than going through 3000 schools on my own. 
I don't have all the time like you.[/quote]

No one said you had to go through 3,000.  You could easily narrow it down to a manageable number based on a combination of factors like geography, preferred class size, campus size, urban/suburban/college town/rural, intended area of study, D1/2/3 sports, graduation rate, campus housing preference, etc. whatever is important your DC, without ever having to look at USNWR.  (Unless the one thing that is important is subjective prestige).  People did that for many decades before USNWR and now with this crazy thing called the internet you can actually find all this information pretty easily.  Frankly I think people just pick based on prestige and sacrifice things that actually matter more to the student for the sake of bragging rights.[/quote]

HOW? randomly going through some random schools?

Oh Yea Of Course We did, We looked at geography, preferred class size, campus size, urban/suburban/college town/rural, intended area of study, D1/2/3 sports, graduation rate, campus housing preference, etc. Especially major/program availability/strength and Fit.  We did that with around T100 schools from a a few of the rankings including USN&WR, Niche, Forbes, Times, etc.

I'm willing to take a risk/sacrifice of missing out a good school outside of that LOL
My kid ended up picking a lower ranked school when got into a couple of higher ranked schools because of all those considerations.

There are stupid people picking a school only by ranking.
However totally ignoring ranking/prestige would be equally stupid.

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