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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] Read "The Overachievers" -- there is a great amount of reporting on how corrupt & flawed USNWR actually is.[/quote] It doesn't change the fact that rankings -- these rankings, in particular -- matter, and that graduate programs and employers are influenced by them. I've made this point on other threads before, but it bears making again -- if it didn't matter, kids wouldn't be applying in droves to these schools and acceptance rates wouldn't be sub-10%. Think about how insane that is; while some of you are crowing about how you care nothing about the eliteness of a school, all of your kids (or everyone else's kids) are applying. So these schools are clearly not suffering from whatever grand delusions you think they have, or US News perpetuates. [/quote]
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