<p>These passionate defenses of USNWR just confirm my assertion upthread about its sway over CC folk, and not just over semi-educated kids. </p>
<p>You cannot rank colleges objectively and meaningfully using simplistic measures like those in USNWR, or for that matter, any of the other rankings. What matters is the impact a school has on the subsequent life of its graduates, and that (1) isn’t quantifiable, for a number of reasons, and (2) would yield different “winners” for different types of students, indeed for each individual student. To say that (for example) Harvard is a “better” school than, say, Tufts, is nonsense. For some students, Harvard is “better,” perhaps, but certainly not all. </p>
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