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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know there are 4,000. But how many are there that anyone UMC who attended college themselves would want their kids to attend?

I wouldn't exclude schools that "nobody's heard of" because I really like the high quality selective SLACs and would gladly send a kid there. But it seems like there are tons of small bible colleges and a million regional state schools that would just be odd for a student from the DMV to attend as an OOS student. Then once you throw out all the for-profit schools and community colleges, how many are left?

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The Princeton Review includes somewhere between 350-400 schools they consider high quality. [/quote]

This. And Fiske is similar with about 320 schools. Any of those can potentially provide a quality education for a student willing to put in the work 
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I’m curious how Fiske chooses which schools to leave out. I couldn’t find VCU, but it makes USNWR’s list. [/quote]
Yes I was very surprised that Fiske didn't include service academies.  They are colleges and pretty high ranking ones, at that!  My DD is a "freshman" (plebe) at West Point now, and a year ago we were trying to figure out the key differences among the service academies like USMA (West Point) and USNA (Naval Academy) (career trajectory, service length requirements, etc) and that's when I realized they weren't in Fiske.[/quote]

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