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<p>I suspect the Yale DOA is not a first gen or an immigrant, but that if he is, by now he has spent years in the higher education business. And if he does have a mental Roladex of hundreds of “outstanding” undergraduate programs, I bet it includes just about all the ones on the high side of the US News “Peer Assessment” ratings. After all, if it’s possible for him to rationally identify “outstanding” programs, and if people like him are worth quoting, then why is that Peer Assessment process (which interviews about 1000 people like him) “crap”? Especially when it produces results similar to the other, numbers-driven 75% of the ranking. People are not so very different from each other that many of us cannot agree on a few criteria worth tracking.</p>
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<p>They may be to some, but apparently they aren’t to many others. Otherwise they would not continue to be so popular after about 3 decades.</p>
<p>I agree with Pizzagirl.</p>