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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To be frank, people really only care about $$ and [b]prestige [/b]here (and a lot of places). Couldn't a ranking system do a good job combining these? Unfortunately, none of those rankings really does it. If you could pull it off in a semi-credible way, you'd have amazing clickbait![/quote]

I think all you'd have to do for this is rank by[b] acceptance rate[/b]. That shows how hard a school is to get into which generally maps to how well known and desirable it is considered. Doesn't mean anything about whether or not the education at any of those is better than any place else.[/quote]

Except there's the weird artifact that schools that accept high academic students (e.g., top 5% GPA, top 5% SAT) have a numerically smaller applicant pool than schools that accept a wider range of which there are more students.  So it doesn't really tell you how "hard" the school is to get into.  One school could have an acceptance rate of 35% and have a 50% SAT range of 1200-1400 with 50% of students submitting TO, while another could accept 36% but have a SAT range of 1300-1500 with 20% of students submitting TO.  Does that mean the former is "harder" to get into or did a narrower range of the group of potential applicants think they had a chance at the former rather than the latter?[/quote]

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