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<p>You are doing things such as taking my statement about US News being subjective and applying it to a totally different example. My point was that the rankings aren’t accurate. You can’t always use them as a reliable measure of how much better one school is than another. Instead, you tried to twist my example to say that it also means that Harvard and Princeton must be overrated.</p>
<p>That leads me to:</p>
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<p>Logic works into everything. Here, your logic is completely off when you say that my statement about the subjectivity of the rankings means that Harvard and Princeton aren’t as good as we think they are. It doesn’t mean that. That is not a conclusion that can logically be drawn from my statement. What I said was that the rankings are inherently flawed, and while they are good at putting schools into the general area they belong, no ranking system can perfectly narrow down every school into its exact spot.</p>
<p>What I said does not imply that any one school is overrated or underrated. Logically, the only conclusion that can be drawn from what I said is that not everything on that list is perfectly accurate. You could even take that and make it into a syllogism if you really wanted to. Basically, what it means is that you have no guarantee how accurate any single ranking is. You can use the rankings very effectively to group schools into “tiers” or to determine the general quality of a school, but using it to try and narrow a school’s rank down to a single number is sketchy at best. I would argue that it is downright foolish to do so.</p>
<p>Finally, these two go hand in hand:</p>
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<p>You need to read what I say before you blindly reference my earlier posts. You implied earlier that I claimed TAMU was the better school. That is something I never stated. In fact, I would argue that UT is likely (marginally) the better school. My only point is that I am of the opinion that the difference between UT and TAMU is far less than most people realize. That is an opinion that pretty much the majority of people that aren’t Longhorns or purely football fans shares. Read carefully what people say before you rebuke them. Otherwise you just look silly.</p>
<p>So, to bring it all together:</p>
<p>No ranking system is perfect. US News is about they best there is right now, but it is still far from perfect. The quality of a school comes down to many, many factors, and no ranking system can capture all of them. Even if it could, choosing a college is so highly personal that choosing one based solely on rankings will likely cause you to miss out on some other extremely important factors such as how you fit in on campus and a million other things.</p>
<p>EDIT: Wow this was a long post. Can you tell that I am currently just sitting at my desk with nothing to do because I am waiting for some parts to be made? Haha.</p>