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After pulling ahead of Princeton last year to claim the top spot on US News & World Report's list of "America's Best Colleges," Harvard has tied its Ivy League rival at number one on the 2010 list...
...hopelessly try to convince your blockmates that Dunster isn’t so bad. You will hookup with a pre-frosh at Mather Lather and you’ll both end up with creepy rashes. You’ll go to UHS, and she’ll go to Princeton...
...Corporation’s seven members serve lifelong terms, and when any one of them chooses to retire, the group appoints the successor. The Corporation’s meeting agendas and minutes are also kept secret. The group is composed of President Faust, two professors (at Georgetown and Princeton), the head of an economic policy research institute, a couple of business leaders, and the former director of Citigroup, Robert Rubin. Some alumni might think they’re electing representatives when they vote for members of the Board of Overseers every year, but in reality, that governing board usually just...
School may still be out for the summer, but all eyes are on college this week: the 2010 U.S. News & World Report college rankings hit stands today, with Harvard and Princeton tying for first place among national universities and Williams ranking first among liberal-arts colleges. TIME spoke to Robert Morse, director of data research at U.S. News and a two-decade veteran of the controversial rankings, about how the list is put together and how it could be better, plus a look at this year's rising stars. (Read about the backlash against college rankings...
...talk about specific schools. Any surprises this year - a school whose ranking has jumped from last year? There wasn't a lot of change from this year to last. Harvard was No. 1 last year, and now Harvard and Princeton are [both] No. 1. People are going to write about that. But they were very close before, and now they're tied. That's not really a big change. Schools are pretty stable, and the top schools have the resources to continue to draw the best students and graduate them at a high rate year after year. It's hard...