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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you are looking at the quality of education you can get, there are a lot of small schools who don't rank very well that have a great curriculum and good professors that are actually much better than Harvard, Stanford etc.

Look at this website that actually looks at the curriculum and what kids actually get taught.

https://www.whatwilltheylearn.com/

It is surprising more families don't pay attention to what these schools really teach for the money they extract

Once you get past that, you are really looking at "Prestige" and bragging rights. Not a good way to select your school, but....

For that, the USNews ranking is the best "Prestige" "Bragging ranking" there is, provided you ignore the strict ranking and just group different colleges into rough prestige tiers

All these other rankings are trying to appear "scientific" but don't measure anything meaningful.

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The tool you link to gives Williams College a D- and Pepperdine an A+.

I'll pass.[/quote]

This ranking is really on curriculum.  If you have a school with no core, where students can determine what classes they will take (think Brown), it will get an F.  UVA gets an F, BTW.[/quote]

Thanks.  Still, hard pass.[/quote]

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