<p>“Mostly, though, I think HS Counselors are likely to be little more than an echo chamber, reading the US News rankings and feeding them back as inputs at the other end.”
And that is why HS counselors are pretty much useless nowadays.</p>
<p>I really think there should be a metacritic type site of college rankings for colleges. Its pretty horrible to say one rankings-list is the best, why not give all of them to the student and let the student read each one and its methodology</p>