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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe, just maybe, there is a difference between some college ranked 150 and one ranked 50, but there is no significant difference between these two.[/quote]

I am still blown away that William & Mary is not ranked higher.  [/quote]

When you look at the new configuration of ranking factors it explains a lot. The school didn’t drop in quality. Unless you value the number of Pell grant attendees above all else…[/quote]

I'm curious why Pell Grant recipients should factor so much in the rankings.  I'm not against Pell Grants, but it doesn't really speak to the quality of education that a school is offerring.  [/quote]

You’ll have to ask USNWR. Though I think the answer is that DEI is trendy right now. And USNWR seems to believe they need to reconfigure and reweigh factors every few years in order to keep the buzz about their rankings going. [/quote]

USNWR have conflated what should probably be multiple lists.  There can be valid lists for "most prestigious" or "most selective", "best learning environment", "most diverse" and "highest economic mobility".  Merging them all these together muddies the water for a user that values one or more of these perspectives over the others.[/quote]

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