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The limits of college rankings 'racket'

CNN.com - Opinion Piece

February 8, 2012

U.S. News & World Report has been highly successful at inducing far too many high school students and their families to think that there are only a handful of colleges worth attending in the entire country, and by extension saying that if a student doesn't get into one of the 'select' few, then life will never be worth living. Attending a Tier 3 school doesn't make you a Tier 3 person, nor does enrolling at Princeton make you a prince.

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