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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]US News is the only place anyone looks for how good a school is. In fact, my child is applying to UC Merced, which is basically one of the Top 50 schools in the entire country according to US News.. Now Merced has an acceptance rate of 90% and a yield rate of 9%, and the last time SAT's were reported, it had 25% of their students scoring below a 990. It's SAT average was 1080. But everyone knows the data lies and US News speaks truth to power. So we are all in on UC Merced. GO BOBCATS!!! It is Stanford's new rival![/quote] Acceptance rate does not equal quality. And if a great education is to be had at a school with a 90% acceptance rate that people wouldn’t have guessed, that’s a good thing, and USNWR actually provided a valuable service. That said, all rankings are flawed, including USNWR, and UCM probably wouldn’t be the 58th most desirable university for my kids, and fit is what matters most anyway. [/quote]
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