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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do so many highly educated and affluent people care so much what 3rd rate magazines and random websites say about how colleges stack up?
Justifying statements about schools with more random rankings is just not helpful either.

No one believes Chicago is a top 4-6 school or that Princeton and Williams are simply "the best."
With universities, Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, Yale, and MIT are the truly most sought after schools. MIT's focus is a bit narrow for my liking as an overall university, but I can't deny it is right there at the top. Duke and Northwestern (and others) are not quite there.
In the SLAC world, Amherst, Swarthmore, and Williams are the top schools. Pomona and Wellesley will occasionally get ranked there but they are kind of the very strong Duke and Chicago/NW of the SLAC world.
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I'm an Amherst grad, and I definitely think of Pomona and Wellesley as being in the same grouping as us. Although my son isn't interested in attending a LAC, I'd be absolutely thrilled for him if he were going to Pomona (I would even push for him to go there, if Williams were in the picture  :lol: )[/quote]

Interesting. I went to one of those top LACs too and disagree. However, having lived in California and the DMV, I'd say on the west coast Pomona has a just as good, if not better reputation than any SLAC. Wellesley is also great but the students and faculty don't seem as strong now. They probably have the best and most tightly-knit alumni network though. Wellesley and Smith amaze me in that regard. 
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