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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Serously doubt you went to Princeton OP. If you did, you wouldn't dispute rankings. You'd applaud them.[/quote]

OP again.  Yes I went to Princeton, before anyone even talking about rankings.  I'm not sure they existed in the early 80s.  I didn't care about Harvard or Yale or whatever and i certainly don't get my self-esteem from US News.

I am going through the process now with a DC who is curious, has intellectual passions, and is very self-motivated.  He could care less about what some corporation thinks about colleges, he's going to decide for himself.  This isn't a game where you are trying to "win" by getting the highest number of points (or rank).  Its my DC's future.  I've glad he's thinking for himself.

And I certainly don't applaud rankings as they corrupt the process.  Did you know that at Wash. U in St/ Louis they have students taking tours fill out a "preliminary application" so that they can inflate their application numbers?  And how about the way some schools offer January admissions?  This didn't use to happen as much and they do it so those applicants scores don't have to go in the database for rankings.[/quote]

So THAT explains Wash U!

Read "The Overachievers" -- there is a great amount of reporting on how corrupt & flawed USNWR actually is.[/quote]

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