Who else thinks the USNWR rankings are overrated? - Page 2

sinflower · 11-06-2009, 11:07 PM

they help a lot. especially for having statistics side-by-side to compare for various colleges.

vossron · 11-06-2009, 11:36 PM

The data they collect is great, very useful. It's the resulting rankings that don't fit anyone. With computers and web sites, they don't need to form a ranking; we could do that ourselves, by entering what is important to us.

dunbar · 11-07-2009, 08:16 AM

Still, they can help you make sure you have a good balance of reaches, matches, and safeties in just one click.

Demiitasse · 11-07-2009, 08:53 AM

"Not exactly; I'm being recruited by Columbia, Brown and Yale- but I'm not applying to them, so before you begin your bifurcation, do some thinking first. =]"

Go look at your own chance thread, you are not being recruited by those schools. Schools only recruit for athletics, and you don't have any. And no, college mail does not count as being recruited. Claims like being recruited by such top schools better have back up, and you don't have it.

sanguinity · 11-07-2009, 08:59 AM

^^^^ Lol you just got wrecked. There is no way someone with your info is actually being recruited by those schools, especially because you don't have any athletics to get recruited for.

Unwarranted claims by blokes on the internet always need fact checking, and you provided all the info we needed to see that you are the type who would lie to try and be a *****. Nice, that is exactly what colleges are looking for.

Salve! · 11-07-2009, 09:00 AM

You can't really rank schools. You can only to an extent. I don't think that just because it is a HYPSM that automatically you will learn so much more and do so much better than if you went to a smaller local private school. Schools are schools when it comes down to it. You learn as much as you put in. Many people blindly strive for the "top" schools just because they are the top schools. Not to say that you won't get a good education, but you may learn just as much if not more at a "lower tier" school. It all depends on the person. You can do anything you want (well, almost anything) as long as you set your mind to it.

original501 · 11-07-2009, 11:02 AM

Vossron:
My point exactly!

dunbar · 11-07-2009, 11:11 AM

^Did you even read posts 19 and 20?

original501 · 11-07-2009, 11:16 AM

Tomjones, Demiitasse, Sanguity:
My bad, maybe recruited wasn't the right word.
At my school's college fair, I talked to various representatives from different schools, and the ones from Columbia, Brown and Yale told me I'll be a "good fit" there, or something like that, and now I get a TON of mail and email from these schools.

Sanguity:

I am NOT lying.
I am simply asking for people's opinions!
(READ THE ORIGINAL THREAD!)
And in case your wondering, I stopped trying so hard when I realized there was more to life than the Ivy League.

Everyone

esp. dunbar)
I NEVER said these school's weren't great, no doubt they are! I'm just saying, many people take these "rankings" WAY TOO seriously! And no, I'm NOT taking them too seroiusly, in fact, I'm not even considering rank, if I was taking the rankings seriously, I would not have posted this thread, now would I?

Millancad · 11-07-2009, 11:55 AM

Quote:

Tomjones, Demiitasse, Sanguity:
My bad, maybe recruited wasn't the right word.
At my school's college fair, I talked to various representatives from different schools, and the ones from Columbia, Brown and Yale told me I'll be a "good fit" there, or something like that, and now I get a TON of mail and email from these schools.

That isn't anything like being recruited. Colleges, including HYPSM, send tons of mail to everyone. Colleges visit my school basically daily, and plenty of kids who could never get in are told they'd be a "good fit." It's meaningless.

Salve! · 11-07-2009, 11:58 AM

I get college letters all the time saying that I am a perfect fit. I believe Yale, Princeton, and such were a part of those. Recruiting is not just being told that you would make a "good fit" for their school.

tomjonesistheman · 11-07-2009, 12:14 PM

if you dont think that the sole purpose of high school is getting into the best college possible (i.e. HYPSM) then you must either be 1) another retarded american who's gonna get fat and die of heart disease or 2) an idiot.

sanguinity · 11-07-2009, 01:42 PM

"My bad, maybe recruited wasn't the right word.
At my school's college fair, I talked to various representatives from different schools, and the ones from Columbia, Brown and Yale told me I'll be a "good fit" there, or something like that, and now I get a TON of mail and email from these schools."

As others have said, that doesn't mean anything, and the smug way you posted how you were "being recruited" just oozes ******baggery.

Blackroses216 · 11-07-2009, 02:47 PM

Guys, seriously? can we, okay?

I'm feeling a little too much hostility here.
Original501 is just making the point that Rankings aren't everything, and people can still be successful and happy as well as get a good education from a school that isn't HYPSM. Just because you don't go to HYPSM, or even if you can't get in does NOT make you an idiot.

Yeah, he made a mistake by saying "recruited" and he admitted to that. He's not trying to lie. He just thought that being a good fit was a really good thing for them to say. We know its not, but you guys don't have to attack him for misinterpreting something. Give him a break. :/

sanguinity · 11-07-2009, 05:02 PM

^^^^

Look at the way he takes uses his "being recruited" status:
"Not exactly; I'm being recruited by Columbia, Brown and Yale- but I'm not applying to them, so before you begin your bifurcation, do some thinking first. =]"

He is clearly attempting to gloat, show off, stroke his ego, etc. and say "wow look at me I'm so awesome I'm being recruited but I'm not applying to them". It is an extremely smug and arrogant statement, one that is not backed up by any real reasoning. It wasn't his misinterpretation; it was the general aloof and pompous manner in which he tried to take advantage of his belief that he was being recruited.