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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This used to be a ranking that parents and students could use to seriously determine the prestige of the school and academic strength of the incoming class profile without getting caught up in "woke" "social engineering" metrics. Now they too have fallen for this nonsense.

Why can't one ranking focus on prestige and just pure academic strength of the incoming students? You have other rankings that deal with all the "social mobility" nonsense.

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Even before all this madness started, you could just look at the SAT (or ACT) scores, and that pretty much told you most of what you wanted to know.  Some publications ranked by number of stars, etc.

Playing the USNews game has allowed some schools to shoot into the stratosphere because they could do it better, not because they are particularly good at educating undergrads.   [/quote]

This is a revealing comment.

From your perspective, a school’s quality is determined by its selectivity. In other words, college is just a gatekeeper thats separates the elite from the riff raff.

Another way of evaluating a college is how much does it actually improve the students. A school that takes less affluent kids and gives them a big leg up is arguably adding more value than a school that takes mostly rich kids and just helps them maintain their privileged position in society.[/quote]

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