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Contrary to the implication of Zachary Seward’s article on Oct. 10 (News, “New College Ranking Places Harvard Fifth”), the Atlantic Monthly is not entering the “club” of magazine that rank colleges. Several of the articles in our November, 2003, “survey” of college admissions explain what’s wrong with the ranking process. In order to demonstrate the fallibility of rankings, without being just theoretical, we constructed a potemkin ranking which we then deconstructed. This was not meant, and cannot reasonably...
...Atlantic Monthly’s special college issue provides valuable insight into those rankings already published by Fiske, Princeton Review and U.S. News & World Report. Each gives slightly different rank order to the top schools. In The Atlantic Monthly rankings, MIT, Princeton and California Institute of Technology were ranked first, second and third, while Harvard placed fifth...
...business school--that the most important stakeholders in the company aren't the shareholders or even the customers but the employees. "Look, if the employees are happy and make the stores fun, then that will make it fun for the customers," he says. Many of his customers--men--rank shopping just below flossing. "If they're happy, business will follow, and shareholders will be happy. It all starts with the employees and making it fun for them. Why does work have to be dull...
...said the rankings, which take into account admission rates, SAT scores and class rank of matriculating students, will not be an annual feature in the magazine...
...invented, to measure applicants’ classroom qualifications. The index is the sum of three components: the average of students’ highest SAT I math and verbal scores divided by ten; the average of their three highest SAT II achievement test scores divided by ten; and their class rank converted to a 20-to-80 scale. A student who answered every question wrong on every SAT he took and placed last in his class would have an AI of 60; one with 800s on all his SATs and first in his class would score 240, and one with 500s...