Ranked 42 by US News report, how accurate would that be looking at the academics?

<p>Just wanted to find out whether its recent ranking was justified or according to you was higher or lower?</p>

<p>idk, i’m convinced 33% of the F&M class isn’t that smart at all because they avoid sending in SAT or ACT</p>

<p>Kradzzzzz from your other posts you explain you spent the first two years of high school stoned with C’s. You had your brothers college classmates help write your essay and you coasted through the last two years ending with a 3.0 rather than take any AP classes and had no continuity with your EC’s. While your SAT’s are respectable that is a perfect case where the SAT is only a small part of any application. With the rest of your past, you would not have been accepted to a school like F&M or most any other top liberal arts school. Your assumption that 33% must not be smart for not submitting SAT’s is a perfect example of how little you understand the application process and what schools find desirable. While your test scores indicate intelligence, your grades and chosen classes show a lack of work ethic which is a far better indicator of collegiate success than standardized testing. I guarantee you will spend more than four years as an undergrad. Statistically that is where you would fall.</p>

<p>More than half the class graduated in the top 10% of their HS classes. The school is ranked as one of the 10 most difficult in the US for cours load requirements. They would not retain 93% of their freshman if a third of them were not that smart as kadzzzz claims. My guess is that since his self reported SAT’s are the only impressive part of his application, he uses that instead of GPA, AP’s or most of the parts of an application most use to gauge intelligence where he is lacking.</p>

<p>As for the original post, please do not get hung up on these news and world report rankings. While they are good for a general guideline, every school can manipulate the numbers to move up or down a few rungs. Use them as a general gudeline and then visit the top choices you are considering. Speak to the students, faculty and walk the campus. If you can see yourself there for the next four years, then you have found the right place.</p>