Word: ranking
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There are glitches to be sure. Apparently, our "financial resources" fell to a rank of seven, though Harvard still has the largest endowment on the planet. The winner in this category was the California Institute of Technology. Call it Revenge of the New Math...
...determining the rank, U.S. News considers several factors including SAT scores, admission rates, and alumni satisfaction
...student who can get in a top institution might in fact be better served by one with a lower rank, even a considerably lower rank," Fitzsimmons said...
...even a significant drop in rank-such as Cornell's fall from 10 to 15 in this year's survey--does not make "any significant difference in the long-run," he said...
Administrators from other Ivy League schools said they also have doubts about the validity of college rank lists, including the U.S. News survey...