<p>I see and understand your point. It’s interesting: maybe it’s telling you that SATs are not everything and that rankings are not absolutely correlated with SAT scores, which they shouldn’t be, which most high school kids on cc believe and therefore get all strung up about. USNWR rankings are nonsense anyway.</p>
<p>“Once you get your knickers untwisted, you’ll realize that these poor, unnamed, down-trodden applicants haven’t been condemned as human beings. Just their scores.”</p>
<p>But don’t you understand: it sure sounds that way to the kids reading this. It is a tremendous source of anxiety being perpetuated. Kid’s define themselves by their scores.</p>