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Most Bothersome Wake Forest Development in the last 12 months? Pit/Tunnels Adjace

Income is now included in the Wall Street Journal rankings where we also plummeted.

We still value small class size and encouraging folks to save the world and be broke.

The rest of America just does not share our values. We are now Swarthmore. I guess that’s good if you share those values.

If you want to go to a school in the top 25 by any objective metric and go get a real job in the current version of America, we are no longer that school.
 
donaldross said:
Income is now included in the Wall Street Journal rankings where we also plummeted.

We still value small class size and encouraging folks to save the world and be broke.

The rest of America just does not share our values. We are now Swarthmore. I guess that’s good if you share those values.

If you want to go to a school in the top 25 by any objective metric and go get a real job in the current version of America, we are no longer that school.
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I don't know why I'm doing this but...

Isn't the primary reason we dropped because we aren't as diverse in admitting a wide range of SES students with regards to Pell Grants? That seems to be the opposite problem of what you are insinuating here.

It's not like Wake has really ever changed what they are about, or what their mission is. The USNWR just changed the criteria for how they get to their rankings. If anything, it's the rankings that are going more "woke" than anything Wake has done.

If we were playing the game based on how they rank now, it would require us to be more "progressive" and less legacy/early admission facing.
 
Also - the majority of America almost certainly doesn't hold the values of most folks who graduate from Wake, but it's for the complete opposite reason that you have posited.
 
WindyCityDeac said:
You can disagree. I just think 4 extra errors in a year is a lot. If you don’t fine. But you never fail to be an ass Pilch.
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WindyCityDeac said:
classy. How do we feel about this mods? we good here?

over questioning a sports take. lovely
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Why isn't Windy's hypocrisy on the his list of bothersome developments?


Are we good here?

WCD -- The Minister:

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Pretty sure there's a difference between an ass and an asshole.

But you're both in the running for poster with the thinnest skin. And grabbing a post from two months ago is like jilted girlfriend shit.
 
how can one apply for a job at the dept of hypocrisy?

google is unhelpful
 
Changes in the USN&WR college ranking are usually very small and very gradual. For us to drop over 20 spots in one year means some really significant changes must have been made in the formula - you know nothing significant changed about Wake Forest or, for that matter, the other schools on the list, in a year. What other schools made massive jumps or drops?

I think you have to ask "what exactly are they trying to measure"? Right or wrong, people interpret the ranking as, essentially, a quality ranking - the best schools in America. If you go to a school ranked number 24 by the USN&WR you can say you sent to a "top 25 University". Is that still true? If you are a parent of a HS kid, how do you use that list when you are considering where to send him or her?
 
DeaconiousHooz said:
we in fact, would be in last place. . . . lol

many of the values WFU held in the Einsenhower era are non-existent now. that's just the reality
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Safe to say that's a good thing. Not much to emulate from a time when the university was segregated and such.
 
Neurodeac said:
They eliminated small class size and percent of faculty with highest degree as criteria. They added diversity and family first time in college as new categories.
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Great news is that this will hopefully be the kick in Wake’s ass to finally freaking change this.
 
scooter84 said:
Changes in the USN&WR college ranking are usually very small and very gradual. For us to drop over 20 spots in one year means some really significant changes must have been made in the formula - you know nothing significant changed about Wake Forest or, for that matter, the other schools on the list, in a year. What other schools made massive jumps or drops?

I think you have to ask "what exactly are they trying to measure"? Right or wrong, people interpret the ranking as, essentially, a quality ranking - the best schools in America. If you go to a school ranked number 24 by the USN&WR you can say you sent to a "top 25 University". Is that still true? If you are a parent of a HS kid, how do you use that list when you are considering where to send him or her?
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It's pretty obvious just based on who dropped and who moved up, that public schools were huge beneficiaries of the new ranking system.
 
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