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Please. There are thousands of these rankings. They all show different results and most of them are produced by Americans in the first place. To start with how do you qualify a college good or bad? Nobel prize winners, number of sharks graduated, number of Forbes 100 people, scientific articles published? Let all of these alone I just graduated from an high school outside USA and am accepted to those top schools along with my classmates. Everybody knows that US applications are about how good you can memorize SAT words and how well you can look on the paper. I know people who faked hundreds of projects and got into these top schools. Believe me their number far exceeds the number of people who actually deserve to be there. A school with abundant resources attracts high profile customers rather than actual students.


Everybody knows that US applications are about how good you can memorize SAT words and how well you can look on the paper.

That's what it looks like from outside the USA. For US students, the SAT barely matters at all. Top criteria at elite schools are 1. race (don't be Asian-American), 2. sports (especially elite sports like crew), 3. contacts, recommenders, networking, 4. high grades from a well-known high school, 5. extracurricular activities, 6. objective tests.

Try that gauntlet and you'll be pining for tests of SAT words.




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