Reply to USNWR College Rankings 2018

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "USNWR College Rankings 2018 - Reactions?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't believe USNWR cares one whit about whether a school is tops in any single field. They ask a broad range of academics about prestige, and the result is a ranking that reflects broad-based excellence, instead of reputation that's concentrated to a limited field

Whatever you think of USNWR, I agree with looking for excellence across the gamut of university fields, rather than a narrow scope. If we always took the narrow scope the CalTech booster is pushing, how on earth would a ranking system judge Swarthmore (politics) vs Middlebury (languages)?

Which is my way of saying the CalTech booster is tiring and the ways she twists herself to argue that acceptance rates, cross-school yields and all the rest "don't matter" is getting really tiring. [/quote]

PS I'm not 16:53 despite agreeing with her use of the word "tiring". Nor do I have any UChocago connections. I do think UChicago has played the rankings game very well, but in the absence of counterfactual data on acceptances and yields and so on, I'm not ready to put it below CalTech mostly because of this issue of broad-based excellence.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics