<p>how come for the midwest universities rankings schools like john carroll is 7th overall. and a school like Walsh University is 3rd tier? I mean, if you look at the % admitted. JC is like 86% and wlash is like 79%? i dont understand these rankings? can you please explain. Is there really that big of a difference between these schools? </p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>and how is a school like "Calvin College ranked ahead of Walsh? their acceptance % is 95%! i just dont get it...</p>
<p>i'm starting to think US News is a bunch of rubbish...</p>
<p>I don’t know much about the schools. All i can say is that acceptance rate is an extremely poor indicator of a school’s quality.</p>
<p>PRECISELY. The avg SAT scores and GPA’s and class rank are better indicators of the quality of the student body…which is only ONE factor itself among many others. Facilities, faculty quality, many factors.</p>
<p>I’ve never heard of either of those schools but some have self-selected applicants and some are less selective but provide a good education anyway. UChicago and Embry-Riddle are good examples of highly self-selective schools with misleadingly high acceptance rates, and St. John’s College is known for its rigorous curriculum despite low selectivity. ASU also accepts anyone with a pulse but it’s a great school because it’s huge and has lots of resources for those interested in utilizing them.</p>
<p>Calvin College’s SAT and GPA scores are much higher than Walsh’s even though it has twice as many students, meaning Walsh by comparison is “selecting” for mediocrity relative to Calvin.</p>
<p>thanks for clearing it up for me.</p>
<p>I second college9
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<p>Take a look at Dismissing school rankings at: [Dismissing</a> school rankings - The Boston Globe](<a href=“http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2007/06/30/dismissing_school_rankings/]Dismissing”>http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2007/06/30/dismissing_school_rankings/)
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<p>Furthermore, The National Opinion Research Center, one of the largest and most highly respected social research organizations in the US, found that the statistical weights used by U.S. News to rank colleges/universities lack any defensible empirical or theoretical basis.</p>
<p>"All i can say is that acceptance rate is an extremely poor indicator of a school’s quality.</p>
<p>Points to Purdue…</p>