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mahatmakanejeeves

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2. I agree (that the lists tend to be meaningless).

Reply to exboyfil (Reply #1)

Wed Aug 15, 2018, 11:53 AM

Aug 2018

I checked for Iowa State. It was up there.

If you exclude California, there are not many school west of the Mississippi highly ranked on that list. Especially when you get west of the Pecos and west of the Rockies, they are scarce. Rice is, IIRC, the highest ranked school west of the Mississippi not in California, followed by the University of Washington. I'll have to check. Those California schools dominated the top of the list. That's good news for residents of California.

I didn't get the ranking of a lot of those schools, but I didn't look into the methodology.

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Money magazine: These Are the 727 Best Colleges in America [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2018 OP

These lists to some degree are meaningless exboyfil Aug 2018 #1

I agree (that the lists tend to be meaningless). mahatmakanejeeves Aug 2018 #2

I lived in California from 2nd to 9th grade exboyfil Aug 2018 #3

These polls are meaningless snowybirdie Aug 2018 #4

If your child has an excellent academic record exboyfil Aug 2018 #5