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...ranked—from hospitals to high schools. With respect to college rankings at least, which we are best positioned to judge, the rankings do far more harm than good. Any system of shorthand that tries to generalize the individual match between students and colleges—particularly through rankings??will fall flat. The qualities of a college include far more than statistics about retention rates, average SAT scores, and faculty-to-student ratios. The U.S. News ranking in particular encourages bad choices and an unhealthy focus on prestige and elitism. If the list is useful for anything...
...only one in which Harvard did not make the top five, Cambridge neighbor Massachusetts Institute of Technology led the pack. The education company Quacquarelli Symonds compiles the data used to produce the rankings, known as the THES-QS World University Rankings. Martin Ince, contributing editor for THES and the rankings?? 2007 editor, said Harvard kept the top position on the list because of its excellence in several categories. “It does undoubtedly have some of the cleverest academics in a whole range of subjects, with the one exception of engineering,” Ince said...
Harvard placed second among national universities in the 2008 US News & World Report rankings??below Princeton and above Yale for the second year...
...News & World Report rankings??which have been published since 1983—have drawn ire from a number of sources...
...back to the waters in full force this weekend for the Harvard sailing team, as the No. 4 co-eds—fresh off a jump up one spot in the national rankings??sailed in four regattas, earning a number of middle-of-the-pack finishes ranging from fourth to sixth-place. The No. 6 Crimson women were also out in their final regatta before next weekend’s New England Championships, finishing in ninth place...