Oh, I have no doubt that the only folks who are questioning the validity of these are those who dropped. That seems somewhat obvious.That may be, but seems to me, the people who actually research if these rankings are flawed or BS are the ones who fall in the rankings. They may be flawed and they may be BS, I really don't know because I've never looked at the criteria for the rankings, but they are out there and I guarantee you people out there see them when making decisions about schools. We live in a headline based society now. The news that ISU dropped is out there, no matter how flawed.
To me, personally, this is pretty meaningless. I haven't looked into going to a college in the last 20 years, so I'm obviously out of touch on the whole subject. Is this something that today's high schoolers will care about? I have a hard time believing these make a huge difference to those considering ISU, but I could certainly be wrong.