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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]US News is kind of a joke these days. It’s no longer a respected publication and just makes money off compiling various lists.  I take their rankings with a grain of salt.[/quote]

+1 The problem is that kids and their parents in competitive high schools (W schools in Montgomery County) follow these rankings as the gospel when choosing schools.  It's very damaging.  Get rid of these rankings, US News specifically. [/quote]
I don’t think this is true.  In the highly competitive NJ HS my kids attend/attended (one has graduated and the other will soon), the kids have a sense of where the schools cluster but don’t know if Penn is ahead of Northwestern or if Bucknell is ahead of Lehigh.  They are also sensitive to other factors such as location and size and everyone applies to Rutgers.

The instinct to censor information because one doesn’t like how they believe other people are using it is epidemic … and saddening.  If you don’t think rankings are useful, don’t use them.  Others might think they are or just like following them.  There’s no need to control what others can read.[/quote]

PP was talking about Montgomery County, Maryland. This is a Washington DC area website. If you’re from New Jersey, we don’t care what you think.[/quote]
I guess we’ve found the spokesperson for the entire DC area.  I just figured the kids in your area were in many respects similar to those up here academically and demographically.  I guess Montgomery County is unique and there are and can be no analogous situations anywhere other than in the DC area.  I’ve learned a lot from reading the thoughts of the people on this site despite not living in this area - unfortunately too often it’s been about the close-mindedness and hostility of many posters.  Oh well.  Live and learn.[/quote]

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