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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Any ranking that does not have Harvard and Stanford as the top two, in whatever order, is suspect.  [/quote]

I get your point and it has some validity, but I respectfully suggest you consider the following:

- Any ranking that values undergraduate experience more than both grad and undergrad will skew those.  Harvard has more than twice as many grad students as undergrads, yet Princeton has nearly the reverse.  Don't you think that will affect the undergraduate experience (profs teaching instead of TAs) and should thusly affect the ranking?

- Rankings do take prestige and reputation into account, but not solely.  Do you think ranking should be based solely on prestige and reputation?  if you do, than your point is correct, but if not...

- How much of your position is self-fulfilling?  That you believe those should be the rankings because USN has often ranked them that way?

- Lastly, and most importantly, increments of rankings are BS -- to say that #4 is better than #5 is totally arbitrary.  Rankings gain more validity when they are grouped.  Yet, no one does that with their rankings -- because then we would all agree on them and no one would click and read![/quote]

Well,  all of the methodology and criteria are fine, if mostly manipulated (how does one evaluate teaching quality or reputation?), but when presented with the choice, where do people actually choose to go?  They choose Stanford and Harvard over every other school on the list.  And it doesn't appear to be particularly close.

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But that's my point exactly -- because of prestige.

What good would a ranking list based solely on that be?[/quote]

I wouldn't being to guess why some of the smartest high school students in the country choose a school.  I think yours is a fairly simplistic assumption about why people choose a college.  Are you really that patronizing and smug about your own superiority?[/quote]

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