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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't understand why there are Georgetown hater on this board.

Georgetown is one of the rare universities not to play the rankings game. They don't even want the Common App, and as a result, go down in the rankings because their applicant numbers aren't artificially boosted. They ask for 4 essays, require ALL SAT or ACT scores (only college in the US to require this with MIT), and encourage submission of AP scores. They only want genuinely interested students to apply, clearly.

They don't deserve to be dumped on.[/quote]

The number of applicants (or the acceptance rate) is NOT a factor in calculating the rankings.  So the fact that they require 4 essays, all scores and don't use the common app have no impact on anything other than the number of applicants.[/quote]
 
Number of applicants does factor in the acceptance rate, and acceptance rate is a very significant criteria in ranking universities and colleges, dumbass.  :roll: 
The other requirements are a sign that they don't bow to stupid trends, which is a good thing.
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For some reason my original response to this offensive comment was deleted. So I will once again post it!!  Here are the factors that are used to determine rank for USNWR.  Note, there is nothing about acceptance rate or number of applications.  I rest my case.

[img]https://i.imgur.com/7K6yygw.png[/img][/quote]

Why do so many people hold a 2nd-tier mag in such high regard in terms of the top colleges? If you can't attend them, rank them I guess? The commentary from law school and med school deans makes USNWR look awful.

"At a January presentation to law schools, Robert Morse, U.S. News’s chief data strategist, disclosed that he didn’t commit to a particular mathematical model until after receiving schools’ data, according to Ian Ayres, an economist and Yale Law School professor who attended the event. Once that information was in hand, Dr. Ayres said, the team ran simulations giving various factors different weights to see the potential outcomes before deciding on a final method.

Dr. Ayres said that approach violates fundamental social-science research standards in which the methodology is specified ahead of time to prevent anyone from reverse-engineering a preferred result."
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-news-college-rankings-yale-law-fe24f0b2[/quote]

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