Cornell must STOP being an ivy

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<p><a href=“%5Burl=http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1059936273-post37.html]#37%20[/url]”>quote</a> Stitchintime: i find it ironic that the annapolic (sic) group is forming a group against forming groups. it’s passively smug if you ask me.

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<p>The observation is specious because group formation is not at issue. It’s the ranking methodology that is being taken to task. From [Liberal</a> Arts College Presidents Speak Out on College Rankings](<a href=“CollegeNET | Admissions, Scheduling & Virtual Classroom Software”>CollegeNET | Admissions, Scheduling & Virtual Classroom Software):</p>

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…We believe these rankings are misleading and do not serve well the interests of prospective students in finding a college or university that is well suited to their education beyond high school. Among other reasons, we believe this because such rankings
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[<em>]imply a false precision and authority that is not warranted by the data they use;
[</em>]obscure important differences in educational mission in aligning institutions on a single scale;
[<em>]say nothing or very little about whether students are actually learning at particular colleges or universities;
[</em>]encourage wasteful spending and gamesmanship in institutions’ pursuing improved rankings;
[<em>]overlook the importance of a student in making education happen and overweight the importance of a university’s prestige in that process; and
[</em>]degrade for students the educational value of the college search process.[/ul]
While we believe colleges and universities may want to cooperate in providing data to publications for the purposes of rankings, we believe such data provision should be limited to data which is collected in accord with clear, shared professional standards (not the idiosyncratic standards of any single publication), and to data which is required to be reported to state or federal officials or which the institution believes (in accord with good accountability) should routinely be made available to any member of the public who seeks it…

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