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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The reason the US News rankings gained such traction is that they are generally consistent with what most people think based on what they know - so they assume they are accurate in other respects.  So, for example, when I see the comparative rankings of Princeton, Duke, Georgetown and UVA, I say "that seems about right" and I trust the other rankings.

The methodology is subject to question, but the results seem right.  [/quote]

Trust me, as someone who has worked at three universities - you don't know anything.  Really, you don't.  People base their decisions on a lot of superficial BS instead of on the [b]quality of the professors,[/b] which is what should matter.  Then they bitch about the cost of the superficial BS when it is they who have made irrational, uninformed decisions.[/quote]

+1.  I had mentioned my experiences with this on a previous thread.  For my undergrad and graduate education, I went to a top 25, a school that was ranked at around 100, and another that was about at 150.  If I had to rate the quality of my professors, I would put the 100 college first with the 150 university a close second, and the "top" school a very, very distant third.  My classmates and I were mystified as to why the big name school ranked so highly when the quality of instruction was so uniformly poor.  Ever since that experience, I've taken these rankings with a grain of salt.          [/quote]

Masters of the obvious.  So with hundreds of schools and myriad possible classes each with multiple professors, which school has the best professors in the classes I will take? Impossible to know.

[b]I graduated from a top 5 law schools where I had both the beast AND worst teachers[/b] I've had at any level of education, but in the end it was the school's reputation that justified the considerable expense.  [/quote]

You had beast teachers at a top 5 law schools?
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