Anonymous wrote:The flyover country colleges will suffer the most. Outside of these fake rankings, why would anyone bother freezing their butt off in a dying depressing region. A false sense of status and prestige is all places like Chicago, Northwestern, WashU, and Michigan have. Notre Dame is the one anomaly I suppose.

Meanwhile Georgetown, Vanderbilt, USC, Miami and NYU will remain hot because they’re full of rich kids and in thriving cities.

Lmao this could not more obviously be a parent from one of Georgetown/Vanderbilt/USC/MIAMI of all schools/NYU. So cringe.

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Anonymous wrote:Gosh, whatever will we talk about, then?

And how will strivers know where to apply?

Outside of the Ivies, MIT, and Stanford the rest of the schools aren’t changing your kid’s life, no matter how far they scam their way up the list, so what was even the debate. Status obsessed proles arguing and debating meaningless nonsense. And it’s almost always middle class strivers with a kid at middling Northwestern or some degree mill public college who are the most obsessed with that rankings crap.

Middling Northwestern? The Midwest hating psycho has returned.

To call Northwestern middling is the definition of someone who’s obsessed with, “rankings crap.”

+1. Northwestern was an excellent school long before US News came around and deemed it so.

Undergrad was generally a regional U for Great Lakes rich kids. Nothing special.

Lol. The gobs of rich and famous alumni from California and the Northeast would certainly disagree with you. A century’s worth of alumni, really. But hey, whatever feeds your obsessive anti-Midwest fixation, right?

Anonymous wrote:It seems USNWR rankings are slowly falling apart. About time!

https://www.insidehighered.com/admissions/article/2023/01/18/harvard-medical-school-withdraws-us-news-rankings

On the contrary, they will always be here.

It's just that real education will take place at schools ranked there, while clubbing will go on at the other ones.

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Anonymous wrote:Gosh, whatever will we talk about, then?

And how will strivers know where to apply?

Outside of the Ivies, MIT, and Stanford the rest of the schools aren’t changing your kid’s life, no matter how far they scam their way up the list, so what was even the debate. Status obsessed proles arguing and debating meaningless nonsense. And it’s almost always middle class strivers with a kid at middling Northwestern or some degree mill public college who are the most obsessed with that rankings crap.

Middling Northwestern? The Midwest hating psycho has returned.

To call Northwestern middling is the definition of someone who’s obsessed with, “rankings crap.”

+1. Northwestern was an excellent school long before US News came around and deemed it so.

Undergrad was generally a regional U for Great Lakes rich kids. Nothing special.

The flyover country colleges will suffer the most. Outside of these fake rankings, why would anyone bother freezing their butt off in a dying depressing region. A false sense of status and prestige is all places like Chicago, Northwestern, WashU, and Michigan have. Notre Dame is the one anomaly I suppose.

Meanwhile Georgetown, Vanderbilt, USC, Miami and NYU will remain hot because they’re full of rich kids and in thriving cities.

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Anonymous wrote:Gosh, whatever will we talk about, then?

And how will strivers know where to apply?

Outside of the Ivies, MIT, and Stanford the rest of the schools aren’t changing your kid’s life, no matter how far they scam their way up the list, so what was even the debate. Status obsessed proles arguing and debating meaningless nonsense. And it’s almost always middle class strivers with a kid at middling Northwestern or some degree mill public college who are the most obsessed with that rankings crap.

Middling Northwestern? The Midwest hating psycho has returned.

To call Northwestern middling is the definition of someone who’s obsessed with, “rankings crap.”

+1. Northwestern was an excellent school long before US News came around and deemed it so.

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Anonymous wrote:Gosh, whatever will we talk about, then?

And how will strivers know where to apply?

Outside of the Ivies, MIT, and Stanford the rest of the schools aren’t changing your kid’s life, no matter how far they scam their way up the list, so what was even the debate. Status obsessed proles arguing and debating meaningless nonsense. And it’s almost always middle class strivers with a kid at middling Northwestern or some degree mill public college who are the most obsessed with that rankings crap.

Here comes the deranged Northwestern hater again. We get it, your kid didn’t get into Northwestern. But this bizarre fixation really isn’t healthy for you or your kid.

Thrilled!!!!

Anonymous wrote:Gosh, whatever will we talk about, then?

And how will strivers know where to apply?

actually a funny comment because it is true on many levels

I think US News single handedly raised the reputation of a number of T25 non ivies

Vanderbilt had a 50%+ acceptance rate back at the turn of the century as did USC.

Ivies will always get the apps but Vandy, Northwestern, Duke, Rice, Northeastern, and Wash U are included on many wish lists based solely on the ranking

The rankings should be tier-based clusters rather than ordinal.

There's no difference in quality or prestige between Duke, Hopkins and Northwestern. The correct choice is going to be based on major and locational preference. That Duke is top 10 one year and the other two aren't, and vice versa the other years, is just stupid.

Same for Penn, Columbia and Chicago.

Or Dartmouth, Brown and Cornell.

Or UCB, UCLA, Michigan, and UNC.

Or Vanderbilt, Washington University, Notre Dame, Rice, CMU, Georgetown, or Emory.

Or UCSB, UC Davis, UC San Diego, UC Irvine.

Or Tufts, Boston College, Wake Forest, Rochester.

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Anonymous wrote:So what this will do will drive Ivy and other brand name schools admission rates down further. People will focus on having an Ivy name or something known to have a good name like a Duke, Northwestern, Hopkins, or Chicago.

What it will stop is the debates as to Chicago, Northwestern, Hopkins, Duke etc. are ranked higher than some Ivies. Is that justified?

Yes but nobody knows these schools outside their AOJ (area of jurisdiction), except Hopkins.

No one knows Hopkins either, and even if they do they don't particularly care about it for undergrad.

Anonymous wrote:So what this will do will drive Ivy and other brand name schools admission rates down further. People will focus on having an Ivy name or something known to have a good name like a Duke, Northwestern, Hopkins, or Chicago.

What it will stop is the debates as to Chicago, Northwestern, Hopkins, Duke etc. are ranked higher than some Ivies. Is that justified?

Yes but nobody knows these schools outside their AOJ (area of jurisdiction), except Hopkins.

So what this will do will drive Ivy and other brand name schools admission rates down further. People will focus on having an Ivy name or something known to have a good name like a Duke, Northwestern, Hopkins, or Chicago.

What it will stop is the debates as to Chicago, Northwestern, Hopkins, Duke etc. are ranked higher than some Ivies. Is that justified?

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Anonymous wrote:Gosh, whatever will we talk about, then?

And how will strivers know where to apply?

Outside of the Ivies, MIT, and Stanford the rest of the schools aren’t changing your kid’s life, no matter how far they scam their way up the list, so what was even the debate. Status obsessed proles arguing and debating meaningless nonsense. And it’s almost always middle class strivers with a kid at middling Northwestern or some degree mill public college who are the most obsessed with that rankings crap.

I think you meant to say HYPSM…

Probably went to a lower tier Ivy

+1

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Anonymous wrote:Gosh, whatever will we talk about, then?

And how will strivers know where to apply?

Outside of the Ivies, MIT, and Stanford the rest of the schools aren’t changing your kid’s life, no matter how far they scam their way up the list, so what was even the debate. Status obsessed proles arguing and debating meaningless nonsense. And it’s almost always middle class strivers with a kid at middling Northwestern or some degree mill public college who are the most obsessed with that rankings crap.

Middling Northwestern? The Midwest hating psycho has returned.

To call Northwestern middling is the definition of someone who’s obsessed with, “rankings crap.”