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TIAS | Addressing Our Obsession with the U.S. News Rankings
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This obsession with elite rankings and “upper Ivies, lower Ivies, HYP” in the college admissions community and beyond creates a dissonance with high school students and the general populace. This dissonance that college rankings create is often distasteful: it encourages crude competition, unethical means of entry (such as paying and cheating on the SAT) and perpetuates a class divide in higher education.