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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And we are recommending academics, prestige, and reputation overall. [/quote]

"Prestige" and "reputation" are different?  What is "academics" if not reputation of academic quality?

As flawed and controversial as USNWR is, at least they spell out their methodology in detail, have more granular rankings for specific things like undergrad teaching and undergrad research, are surveying senior administrators of accredited institutions, and have gone through intense intense scrutiny for 40 years.

Not to be rude, but why would a list with no real description of methodology created by an unknown number of random people with unknown qualifications over a matter of days even begin to compare?

Whatever floats your boat, I guess...

But my personal advice having gone through the process a few times it to focus less on what others think and more on what's best for your own kid.[/quote]

I did for three kids.  All are currently at Non HYP Ivies.  The rankings contribute to the tiers along with general understanding of career, reputational, and academic prestige.  [/quote]

Congratulations on your children.

I have a couple kids at schools very highly ranked by USNWR.  Perhaps I misunderstood your meaning, but I don't think that makes me as much of an expert as those surveyed by USNWR on topics like reputation or academic prestige.  I think I am pretty expert on my kids and helping them find what fit their interests, but not much more!

Career data is pretty messy in terms of whether there's statistically significant amount of data for each major at each school, but I used a combination of sources for that, including PayScale (more data than CollegeScorecard) and outcome data provided by each college.

If one is looking for data beyond the above, I would suggest individual Common Data Sets, Princeton Review, Fiske, Colleges Worth Your Money, The College Finder, and the NSF survey of earned PhDs (more thorough than probably any other grad degree aggregator I came across).[/quote]

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