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Date Added: June 18, 2008 02:44:02 PM
STUDENTS - and often parents, too - go deep into hock to finance a prestige college education. Media hype adds to the pressure to go where the prestige is. The various annual rankings of colleges and universities, especially the rankings by US News...

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