<p>I usually avoid rankings discussions, but this one is so goofy I felt compelled… </p>
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Apparently, “by definition”, the top 50 USNWR universities are the most stressful. So going to one of the top 50 schools automatically makes you at one of the most stressful schools?</p>
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So if the family has money or sufficient aid, the 35% for cost is meaningless. The 35% for rigor is the reason you’d want to attend these schools in the first place. The 10% for acceptance rate is gone by now, since your daughter, if a senior, has already applied! The 10% for the rigor of the graduate engineering program is for grad students, with possible overflow to the small percentage of students who actually are engineering students.</p>
<p>That only leaves the crime on campus for 10%. None of this is measuring graduation rate, amount of academic overloads, suicides, transfers out or dropouts for any reason, alcoholism, late-breaking class drops, roommate problems, professor availability, availability of housing, quality of food, availability of summer jobs, quality of internet, quality of student center…</p>