'Any admissions officer worth their position knows rankings like the U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges list are capitalistic undertakings rooted in junk science.'
, among other publications, for six years. The college’s vice president and dean of admissions immediately took full responsibility and resigned, theDeresiewicz explains that college presidents are often at the forefront of misreporting cases because they personally bear the brunt when rankings take a nosedive.
Several current and former Berkeley students admit the school’s prestigious reputation did play a part in motivating them to look into the school. “I definitely think Berkeley’s top-tier ranking initially pulled me in a bit further and made it difficult to entertain other offers from universities that were not ranked as highly,” Madeline Hayes, a rising junior and philosophy major at Berkeley, toldAman Mohapatra, who graduated in May from Berkeley with a microbial biology degree, also toldthe list “definitely played a role in my decision because of the prestige that came with the ranking for the school.
“I’ve heard [of] situations where schools will not admit students they know have a very low chance of yielding,” he said. “I’ve seen some institutions where a student’s been admitted to five of the most selective institutions in the country, and then I’ll see the student rejected at a less competitive school.”eliminated acceptance rates, which previously held 1.25% weight, from itsin what it framed as an effort to “make room for the new social mobility indicators.
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