This is why my alma mater [Reed College] stopped sending data to US News
and World Report, and other similar surveys, several years ago. Despite
prophecies of doom, the college is actually recruiting *better* students
now than it was before it withdrew from the contests [where it had
consistently been ranked in the top tier of liberal arts colleges]. Then
again, the kind of students who want to go to Reed are likely not the sort
who rely on magazine rankings to pick their colleges anyway!
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Ann Muir Thomas, Ph.D. http://erebus.bentley.edu/empl/t/athomas
"The Accidental Jewess"
Bentley College, Waltham, MA
"You aren't belittled by being little. Only by acting small." --- Red
