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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The controversy over the US News rankings comes from how they weight different factors. What's unfortunate is that US News could easily allow people to construct their own weights and generate new rankings based on them. Say, if you think graduation rates are really important, increase their weight. Or if you care most about academic reputation? Give that more weight. All of this would be simple to do, but it would show how much the Top 20 (or whatever) colleges would change based on reasonable differences about what's most important. But it would make the rankings much more useful to actualy people![/quote] But how am I supposed to look down on other people’s kids if we’re using different ranking systems? I need a single objective system for determining how superior my child is to yours. (/s —because around here you can never be certain!)[/quote]
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