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collegehopeful and lovecamp: Nice try, but ad hominem attacks on SamLee dont mask your obvious inability to refute his point. And, not that he needs my defense but his comments about NU, which you characterize as boosterism, to me, for the most part provide potential applicants with helpful facts and informed opinions about various science and engineering programs at NU, with which he appears to be familiar [much like several alums do in the mit forum.] Isnt that what CC is supposedly about? And, so what if he thinks NU has good programs. I do too. By what twisted illogic does that change any of the facts at issue?
So, USC boosters, if you want to defend the way USC does things on the merits, I'd be happy to read what you post. But, it's put up or shut up. Ad hominem attacks dont cut it.
BTW, it's not only USC that games the usnwr rankings. Penn and WashU were always notorious for doing it. And Stanford and MIT have done it too. I remember MIT actually corrected its class size counts and exclusion of SAT verbal scores for non-english speaking internationals in a very public way, when the new dean of admissions came aboard. Maybe USC will do the same.
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