Anonymous
Post 11/13/2017 08:16     Subject: Re:How well does the US News rankings correlate with actual prestige?
Anonymous wrote:Another day, another thread about arbitrary college prestige. Ugh.
+1
Anonymous
Post 11/13/2017 02:05     Subject: How well does the US News rankings correlate with actual prestige?
Anonymous wrote:It's gives a good rough idea re: difficulty of admission, from most difficult to least.


Nope. Difficulty of admission does not depend only or even mostly on scores. At most of the top schools, after you hit a certain score other things start to matter. Some top schools care about scores more at the expense of other things. That doesn't make them harder to get in though.
Anonymous
Post 11/12/2017 21:17     Subject: How well does the US News rankings correlate with actual prestige?
It's gives a good rough idea re: difficulty of admission, from most difficult to least.
Anonymous
Post 11/12/2017 20:14     Subject: How well does the US News rankings correlate with actual prestige?
Anonymous wrote:The rankings are all over the place. I just go by incoming SAT scores. The proof is in the scores.


Lol not even close. All the top schools could admit their entire class with perfect/near perfect scores but have different priorities in terms of scores. After a certain level scores mean jack.
Anonymous
Post 11/12/2017 14:26     Subject: How well does the US News rankings correlate with actual prestige?
Anonymous wrote:"Prestige" is so subjective. As an example in China, GW is thought of as being almost in the same category as an Ivy.
It is a good school but surely not a match for an Ivy....it is interesting to see how other countries look at our schools, the big H is still seen as the holy grail while many admit they heard of Princeton, go figure.


lol add this to *things GW parents say*
Anonymous
Post 11/12/2017 14:16     Subject: How well does the US News rankings correlate with actual prestige?
Anonymous wrote:The rankings are all over the place. I just go by incoming SAT scores. The proof is in the scores.


Justice Thomas??
Anonymous
Post 11/12/2017 13:49     Subject: How well does the US News rankings correlate with actual prestige?
The rankings are all over the place. I just go by incoming SAT scores. The proof is in the scores.