Halloween Shooting vs USC Ranking?

[uscfreshmen]

<p>Do you think the recent shooting will hurt our ranking?</p>

[War_Chant]

<p>Why would it?</p>

[alamemom]

<p>According to USNWR, their rankings are based on:

The U.S. News Best Colleges rankings 2013 edition, published online on Sept. 12, 2012, is based on up to 16 key measures of quality, described below. U.S. News uses these measures to capture the various dimensions of academic quality at each college. </p>

<p>The measures fall into seven broad categories: peer assessment; graduation and retention rates; faculty resources (class size, for example); student selectivity (for example, average admissions test scores of incoming students); financial resources; alumni giving; and, for the National Universities and National Liberal Arts Colleges categories only, graduation rate performance and high school counselor undergraduate academic reputation ratings.

[Methodology:</a> Undergraduate Ranking Criteria and Weights - US News and World Report](<a href=“http://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/2012/09/11/methodology-undergraduate-ranking-criteria-and-weights-2]Methodology:”>http://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/2012/09/11/methodology-undergraduate-ranking-criteria-and-weights-2)</p>

<p>So, as War Chant asks, why would it?</p>