专题07 六选四-备战2024年高考英语近两年名校联考模拟试题精选（上海专用）

专题07 六选四 （原卷版） 目录 1. 上海市大同中学2023-2024学年高三开学试题 2. 上海交通大学附中2023-2024学年高三摸底试题 3. 上海市进才中学2023-2024学年高三9月测试 4. 上海市复兴高级中学2022-2023学年高三试卷 5. 上海市建平中学2022-2023学年高三测评试卷 6. 上海市市西中学2022-2023学年高三期中试题 7. 上海市敬业中学2022-2023学年高三试题 8. 上海市彭浦中学2023年高三试题 9. 上海奉贤区致远高级中学2022-2023学年高三评估试题 10. 上海市嘉定区封浜高级中学2022-2023学年高三试题 1. 【上海市大同中学2023-2024学年高三开学试题】 College rankings are misleading. So why do we still use them? Many high school seniors have been opening emails over the past weeks that tell them whether they got into the colleges of their choice. 47 A math professor at Columbia University is challenging the data that the Ivy League school reported to U. S. News & World Report , which earned it the No. 2 ranking this year. A couple of weeks ago, in what must be the granddaddy of fake-data scandals, the fired dean of Temple University’s business school received a 14-month sentence after he was convicted in federal court of sending fake information to U. S. News & World Report to boost the school’s prestige. Claremont McKenna College, The George Washington University and many other schools have also tweaked data to boost rankings. 48 The problem is the rankings themselves. They can be a counterproductive way for families to pick schools. Probably few college applicants are aware that the single biggest factor U. S. News uses to rank schools is their reputation among officials at other colleges, who might or might not have deep knowledge of the schools. That accounts for 20% of the score. The second biggest factor is six-year graduation rates. But since low-income students are far less likely to graduate within that time period - or ever - than middle-class students, this is more an indication of student affluence than academic excellence. 49 U. S. News had made some positive changes in recent years. It dropped student acceptance rate as one of the criteria, which had led colleges to heavily market to students even if they