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[quote=Anonymous]I agree with the posters that a better approach is to use the Princeton Review or something like it as a tool to vet the top few hundred schools and then a data sorter like the NY times tool that allows you to sort data on preferred qualities. Any "rankings" approach combined or otherwise tends to a) make big distinctions out of tiny differences (a school ranked 25 and 45 may be only separated by tenths of points on criteria that don't matter to you or really anyone except for how it impacts rankings), b) tend to reify these tiny differences into fixed opinions about the quality of schools, and c) invite "gaming" of their system by schools. [/quote]
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