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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]US News regards UC Merced - with its 90 percent acceptance rate and average SAT score of 1080 - as a top 50 school.

US News has no credibility anymore. They threw away their legitimacy two years ago when they abandoned things like class size, qualifications of professors, number of years to graduate, and all the other useful metrics in favor of social justice metrics that most people don't find useful when comparing colleges. So I wouldn't take any US News ranking seriously anymore. Niche and Forbes seem to be a little more useful these days. [/quote]

One hundred percent! Merced with a 1080 has average students. Average is s NOT top 50. Merced should not even be top 200. Quality of students matters. SAT is not perfect but is highly correlated to ability to grasp concepts and perform on college level metrics. Admin at schools with less capable students commonly tell new faculty to slow down the pace and difficulty of  reading or problem sets to meet the average student. Admin is never happy if more than half the students get Cs. Any professor who has taught at a top 30 where the average student has a 1400 SAT vs a school where the average is 1100 knows it is a huge difference in what is possible to cover in a semester, depth and breadth. A 1500 average is different than a 1400, but not as significantly of course. I have been a post doc and assistant and now full professor at a variety of institutions: it is not at all the same when the student levels are that different ![/quote]

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