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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No one cares about these rankings. It's the US News ranking that matters.[/quote]

None of them matter. [/quote]

+1  I'm also glad to see more people are realizing this.  USNWR is moving off its throne as more of these rankings multiply and people start to see the arbitrariness of it all by where different schools land when you shake out the data in different ways.  Fortunately that just dismantles the idea of any ranking system being  that meaningful rather than giving the throne to a new competitor.  USNWR will likely continue to lead the rankings, but just fewer people will care about the enterprise at all.  It already seems a little pathetic when a school obviously is "working" the rankings rather than just following its mission.

The shifts in colleges admissions policies with some going to test optional, some not reporting GPA on CDS due to variations in grading, some not reporting data to ranking systems at all, etc. are going to turn the tide away from this several decade way of focusing on ranking colleges because people will start to see they produce  more "weird" results that don't align with reality (e.g., x school that gamed the ranking system didn't suddenly become so much better than y school that didn't). I think people will instead go back to something like the Princeton Review where they gather up a large group of colleges generally considered good and reputable and don't rank them.  But I think the difference will be they add more targeted data and maybe even rankings within categories so you can look up what matters to you (e.g., career outcomes for psychology majors, alumni satisfaction with school, Med school admissions rates)plus more qualitative aspects about the schools to guide your decision-making.

It may take awhile, but I've already seen it happening. [/quote]

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