College Rankings Are in Trouble. Do Their Users Care?

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There are inherent problems with any college ranking system.  Despite that they can be interesting to look at.  As soon as the stories started coming out of schools falsifying the data then the usefulness/meaningfulness of the rankings dropped sharply.  Then some high ranking schools started dropping out of the ranking system.  Still, if you were a parent and didn't know much about colleges then I suppose it would be a decent place to start to figure out how to think about these things.  I'll give it a C+ or maybe a B-