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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bates.  Tulane.  SMU.  UC Santa Barbara.  Ole Miss.  Sewanne.  Kenyon.  Davidson.  Wake.  Washington and Lee.  USC.  U Vermont.

All taken from Big 3 matriculation lists this year.

Which ones would you consider "disappointments"?[/quote]

A top 25 national university shouldn't be a disappointment, so take USC and Wake Forrest off the list - they are both ahead of Tufts, Michigan and UNC.  Tulane (#51) is still recovering from the hit it took after Katrina, but UC Santa Barbara (#41) is above UT Austun and On par with UW Madison. SMU (#58) has a top business school and considered a Southern Ivy along with Tulane. Indiana (#83) is far behind Maryland, PennState and Delaware and on par with Drexel and Marquette.  Mississippi (#151) is the clear bottom of that list.  [/quote]

Why are you taking the US News rankings as gospel?  They pick random criteria that may not even be your child's criteria.  There are schools that "rank" low but have top notch programs in one or two areas.  If your DC is interested in that area, that would be more important than somebody else's rankings.  Also, colleges are now scamming the system.  For example, there are schools that have every person taking a tour fill out a "preliminary application"  -- for free! -- and thus can inflate their application rates, making their acceptance rates lower.  Highly "ranked" schools are doing this.

An applicant is an individual with their own interests and needs.  Relying on some corporate entity to determine how "good" schools are does a real disservice.[/quote]

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