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[quote=Anonymous]“I don’t see the issue. What is wrong with older students intermingling with the undergraduates. Older students bring life experience and different perspectives which can make class discussions more interesting and engaging.”

There is nothing wrong with it at all. But how much intermingling with transferred/non traditional students is acceptable when a rating system uses data from mostly accepted/matriculated 18 years olds to support its rankings.  This is where I have a problem with a school like Columbia who has  a huge percentage of their undergrads in the SGS taking classes alongside those from CC.  They are basing their eliteness at USNWR off those 18 year olds and completely ignoring the 1/3 of the undergraduates who are not included in that data set. Is it  so hard to understand why this might be a problem? The SGS is not an extension school like the one at Harvard.  USNWR should clarify to its readers that this is not a typical practice at most elite schools.  On the contrary, it rewards Columbia for not reporting that it’s overall student body is more than likely NOT the caliber of HYPSM by giving it an elevated ranking that it might otherwise not deserve. [/quote]

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