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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Pretty much all of them after the top 50 are under-rated.

Most colleges are great places with excellent teaching, and every college is perfect for someone.

Don't be afraid to seek them out and measure them up against the students goals.

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Agree. The whole rating system creates a false devaluing of schools, especially regional schools. It's a huge country with a lot of colleges. Ranking them is a silly exercise.[/quote]

Ranking is useful when there are a lot of colleges like 2500+
Thanks to the information, my three kids found great schools fit them well.[/quote]

The choice isn't ranking vs. nothing.  I very much prefer the Princeton Review approach that selects under 400 schools it considers strong and then rates schools on a variety of features, and gives qualitative description of the schools.  This helps people find a "good" school on the aspects they care about without getting into this horse race mentality that where one school is ten spots above another because they have 1% more research grant funding and 1% more Pell grant recipients or whatever--distinctions that matter so little about whether the school will be a good fit for your student.[/quote]

My kid thought the Princeton Review guide was very helpful. [/quote]

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