I agree the list of “popular” tags isn’t all that useful. One of the [primary goals of tagging](Discussions may now be tagged - College Confidential Community - College Confidential Forums) is to make it easier to find discussions on schools that don’t get as much exposure. Eventually we’ll want to put discussions about, say, [Pitzer College](http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/discussions/tagged/pitzer-college) on the [school page](https://www.collegeconfidential.com/schools/school/pitzer-college). For the people who are interested in that school, I suspect it’ll be very useful.
But a list of hundreds of random schools isn’t doing much for the site. So I’m looking into removing the box.
That leaves the problem of finding tags since the “Popular Tags” box appears to be the only way to discover the list. I think that’s not hugely important at the moment. I expect most traffic to the tags page will come from posts that have the tag. Again, the main point is for people who are interested in specific schools (perhaps because they are applying there) to see other posts relevant to their interests. The list of tags is unlikely to be interesting to most people.