Grading on the curves
Student attractiveness, parking, and reefer madness find a place in college ranking criteria
The college rankings charade is upon us again. If you need a failed magazine like US News & World Report to tell you that Harvard, Yale, and Princeton are great universities, then you might consider getting your higher education information from old Rodney Dangerfield movies.
In a pathetic attempt to steal market share from US News, Forbes magazine published its rankings this month. Forbes rocked the world by announcing that Williams College, which US News perennially ranks as the best liberal arts college in the country, as opposed to a university, is better than Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, blah blah blah.
That was huge news in Billsville, a.k.a. Williamstown, site of Stephen Sondheim’s bucolic Berkshire alma mater, but yawn fodder in the world at large. Williams is great, but so are Tufts, Davidson, and Reed College. Reed refuses to play
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