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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ranking college makes no sense at all. What is the point?[/quote]

+100 a “very good” university, per any ranking, doesn’t mean it’s good for all students.[/quote]

Of course no one should literally pick by going in order of a ranking, but it's a general proxy for which schools have very strong academics, attract quality students, and open lots of doors. That is certainly useful information to have for many ambitious kids.[/quote]

If you don’t know that Harvard has stronger academics, more accomplished students, and a better career network than University of Tennessee at Martin without the use of rankings, then I feel for you.  But it makes 0 difference, and isn’t even qualifiable, whether Rice is “better” than Chicago or Hopkins or or Georgia Tech.  None. [/quote]

The problem is, most people won't know about those schools until it comes time to apply for college, which is when they might look at rankings and see "oh, Rice is a great school in Texas. Georgia Tech is a great school in Georgia." The vast majority of people would only have heard of a handful of elite schools like Harvard or MIT, and if you're west coast Stanford, if you're a basketball fan Duke, and if you're a football fan Notre Dame. The rest are honestly region-based for most until they start looking at things like rankings.[/quote]

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