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Discuss “Lecture to break down CMU”

Every fall, as high school seniors sharpen their pencils for a long winter of college applications, the internationally distributed U.S. News and World Report releases its annual rankings of ?America?s Best Colleges.? Carnegie Mellon University?s Institutional Research and Analysis (IRA) group considers these rankings very important, and from their standpoint, so do those millions of rising seniors in the market for colleges.

On Thursday, Stacey Lopez and Melissa Taranto of the IRA will give a presentation on the breakdown of the U.S. News statistics and will demonstrate how CMU performed compared to its peer institutions. Lopez is the director of the IRA and a former statistics instructor, and Taranto is an IRA research analyst and six-year...

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