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...rankings] didn't really concern me....There's a lot of arbitrary things that go into those rankings," said Robert B. Willison '03. "Caltech is such a different school from Harvard, it's hard to think of them in the same category...
...Caltech Provost Stephen E. Koonin said a numerical ranking system like the one used by U.S. News & World Report is not a comprehensive measurement of a college's worth...
Koonin noted, however, that the publicity garnered by the U.S. News & World Report survey will probably help Caltech attract applicants and gain more recognition outside of the West Coast...
...Caltech's jump from number four to number one in the rankings can largely be attributed to a change in the methodology of the U.S. News rankings...
...survey considers such factors as selectivity, faculty, graduation and retention rates, and financial resources. This year, the magazine put increased weight on a school's expenditure per student--a category in which Caltech, with its wealth of lab facilities, more than doubles the amount spent by Harvard, Princeton and Yale--as well as several other categories...