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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They were e-mailing like nuts! So annoying, basically begged DD to apply, waved fees.  Who wants to switch one humid area for worse humid and bla college?[/quote]

Where did you learn to write? Yikes. [/quote]
On dcum. My fourth language, so don't care.[/quote]

Maybe you shouldn’t be talking trash about excellent colleges. [/quote]i

[b]Don’t get carried away......it’s a good college that has certainly improved over the years but it clearly has gamed its way up the rankings[/b].[/quote]

About the "gaming"...

If a school rides the wave of a higher ranking and it leads to more private funding (donor giving goes up), public funding increases (NIH funding etc),  attracts more high stats students so the student body improves, more investment into infrastructure (more impressive research facilities, housing)...WHY IS THIS A BAD THING?

Doesn't that mediocre school become world class? [/quote]

[b]It’s hardly world class but I certainly can’t fault them for their motives butthere are many unintended consequences of their strategy.[/b] [/quote]

Hard to please crowd here.

Their aim is to be a world class university. So, Tulane is using their rise in rankings to fund their future. I don't see anything wrong with this. So many people complain about their universities lack of resources, housing, investment. These are all things we look for in a college for our children.

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