<p>“and with the rankings I could quickly locate data that suggest, the applicants to those schools have good grades, or, those students probably don’t take academics seriously enough for my preference.”</p>
<p>Since you mentioned it, if you actually did this, you would not find Reed. Yes, you said later that you didn’t just use the rankings. I’m just emphasizing the flaw of using the rankings. The USNWR data collection is excellent; they should just get out of the one-size-fits-none ranking business.</p>