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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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 [b]students and faculty don't seem as strong now[/b]. They probably have the best and most tightly-knit alumni network though. Wellesley and Smith amaze me in that regard. 
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You're just biased. Wellesley professors are ridiculously accomplished. I'd go so far as to say #1 among all LACs, or 2 after Barnard. And student caliber is similarly high across all of these institutions (no data for Williams since they haven't posted their recent 2022-2023 CDS):

Wellesley- 1440-1540 SAT, 33-35 ACT, 89% in top 10% of HS class
Amherst- 1450-1550 SAT, 33-35 ACT, 90% in top 10% of HS class
Pomona- 1480-1540 SAT, 33-35 ACT, 91% in top 10% of HS class
Swarthmore- 1455-1540 SAT, 32-35 ACT, 89% in top 10% of HS class[/quote]

It’s worth pointing out that almost all the top 30 LACs are close to these stats. They drift towards 31-34 but still up there. Sure the super duper kids are more likely to be found among the top 5/10 but there is not a huge drop off by any means. [/quote]

Important too to look at percent submitting test scores, all similar range with Pomona the lowest:

Wellesley 61% 
Amherst 63% 
Pomona 53%
Swarthmore:61%
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