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How Much Do Rankings Really Matter?
Each year, hundreds of magazines, websites and companies put out lists designed to provide an objective set of college rankings. They peruse everything from survey data to student-faculty ratios to alumni giving rates, putting all of their numbers into formulas designed to let us know just which schools are the very best. However, there’s an open secret in the admissions world: those rankings are mainly rubbish.