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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The US News ranking jumped the shark with its latest manipulations. It doesn't change what NYU is, a decently prestigious but pricey school in the heart of Manhattan.

There is no need to decide whether it's 22 or 32 or whatever.[/quote]

US News is more accurate now than in the past.[/quote]

No, it give more points to schools with more poorer students. 
That's not accurate and a way to evaluate schools.

I don't care if students are poor or rich.  I care quality of the students.

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Define "quality of the students".  If you mean high stats, the top universities don't only take students with the highest stats. Otherwise, my very high stats kid would be at a T10, but instead, DC is at a state flagship (and they are happy there).[/quote]

The high quality sought after students are not always the one with high stats, meaning perfect score, tutors, the same extracurriculars that they all take.  They want to see beyond that.  What the student has done outside of high school independently, some unconventional pursuits that show what matters to them. Character, morals, the ability to work with people from all types of backgrounds.  
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I think these kids who get into the top Ivy schools are naturals.   They are naturally intellectually curious and will go out of their way to satisfy that curiosity.  They see something that needs fixing and they figure out how to help fix it.   They aren’t having their parents decide everything for them, arranging tutors and activities that the parents think will get them in.  [/b]

A lot of students had the very best education where everything was given to them, nothing in the way of them getting high stats.  But it’s the kids with the “it” factor that are admitted.  Intelligent but also there’s just something about them.  [/quote]

Wow. My experience with recent Ivy alumni is that they are incredibly insecure, having been told for so many years that they are the best of the best but can't understand why they have to work under people who graduated from ::gasp:: state schools. They are a nightmare to work with because they think by virtue of having attended HYP they have had special access to unlocking the secrets of the universe, when in fact they have been attending the same classes as everyone else but with richer classmates. So they act like everyone else is beneath them. And if they are legacies/athletes they are often less competent than others as they are getting by on the HYP name with no substance behind it.[/quote]

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