Your examples of Uninformed/Informed first choices in College Selection?

This Stanford research (https://ed.stanford.edu/news/first-step-choosing-right-college-ignore-rankings-says-stanford-researcher) is titled “The first step to choosing the ‘right’ college? Ignore the rankings”

In case someone insists seeing a ranking, I think it is important to find a ranking which at least has been subject to independent audit by a professional services firm. So which ranking has been audited? The only one I can find is

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/rankings/united-states/2019

There are so many premed threads these days. Please go to https://www.aamc.org/data/facts/applicantmatriculant/ to read Applicants and Matriculants Data. I think most people can get something out of the data. Never blindly trust what people tell you. Data does not lie.