<p>Have not heard much about it lately.</p>
<p>You mean the Annapolis group, or some other effort?</p>
<p>Guess that was it. I just remember a lot of boycott talk and now nothing.</p>
<p>I believe the [Education</a> Conservancy](<a href=“CollegeNET | Admissions, Scheduling & Virtual Classroom Software”>http://www.educationconservancy.org/) was working on some kind of boycott-- I think they overlap with the Annapolis group.</p>
<p>what? there was a boycott? news to me, i just went on it today in fact. lol</p>
<p>what? there was a boycott? news to me, i just went on it today in fact. lol</p>
<p>To my knowledge, the boycott was of the reputational survey. Ultimately, its effects would probably be hard to measure because some of the people who agreed may not have been responding to the thing anyway. And there remain more than a thousand who do complete it. </p>
<p>Some colleges have also pledged to not use rankings in their promotional materials.</p>
<p>I haven’t seen a movement to refuse to provide information. That, to my mind, would have the greatest potential to change USNews’ approach. But the number of schools who refuse is relatively small.</p>
<p>Had no idea there was even an attempt at a boycott.</p>
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Make that more than 2,000.</p>
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<p>I think that succinctly answers the question of just how well the boycott is working out.</p>
<p>^^ LOL. Yes, succinctly said.</p>
<p>One of the best things that could happen to us is that we would never have to hear another word from the crook who leads the Education Conservancy.</p>
<p>I think it would only work if more high profile universities would go for it. </p>
<p>In the Ivies, Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth, Penn, and Columbia would probably trip over themselves to do it if HYP ever thought it was a good idea.</p>
<p>Not providing information to the rankings is just silly to me…why would they deprive students looking to apply to colleges of the information that may play a vital role in this process? Colleges and universities realize this, which is why a full boycott will never fly.</p>
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Exactly, because we all know that same information isn’t available on college websites. :rolleyes:</p>
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Just like they eliminated ED/EA after H and P did? :rolleyes:</p>
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No, like they eliminated loans after H and P did. ;)</p>
<p>^ I.e., when it’s in their interests. :)</p>
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<p>Explain to me again why SAT scores, faculty salaries, or acceptance rates should play a vital role in the decision that a high school student makes?</p>
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<p>Exactly. </p>
<p>Brown, Dartmouth, Columbia, and Cornell would all benefit from moving away from an ordinal ranking. Penn, probably less, so because it seems to have benefited the most from the rankings vis-a-vis the non-incredibly well-endowed Ivies.</p>