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this post was submitted on 18 Jun 2026
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This is for strictly mildly interesting material. If it's too interesting, it doesn't belong. If it's not interesting, it doesn't belong.
This is obviously an objective criteria, so the mods are always right. Or maybe mildly right? Ahh.. what do we know?
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So rankings are NOT based on if people even like to go there
Or their grades, and future success, or whatever
Nope. The ranking has nothing to do with undergraduate education. The closet thing they have is the test scores for the accepting class and admission rate.
Those are generally the concerns of a college. Universities are primarily research institutions, which appears to be the lens with which these rankings are created.
I would imagine the stress placed on grants and publications to maintain this status might make it not the happiest campus in the World. Grades are hard to compare across institutions. Future success is probably correlated with the metrics they used to some degree.