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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]High school rank as an “academic merit-signaling” variable has become meaningless over time as many/most schools no longer even calculate it.  Its removal from the methodology is a good thing.  SAT scores are a better calibration of incoming student quality/strength and for all top 10 schools the majority of students submitted SAT or ACT scores and the top 25 percentile numbers strongly signal high quality matriculating students.  The mean scores are also very high.  So, despite the grousing, USNWR DOES in fact measure incoming student body quality.  Interesting to note that most of the privates with big moves in negative direction have ED2 and that is signaling something, perhaps slightly less strong academic ability.[/quote]

Except the UC schools do not have test score (US News just counted their graduation rates at a  higher percentage as a substitute).  So they move up with both test scores and class rank (a surrogate for grades) removed as criteria.[/quote]

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