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...particularly in terms of the achievement of those goals: the education of students, the productivity of faculty, the contribution of research to the broader society. Other apparent goals—raising huge sums of money, having successful athletic teams, and moving up in the U.S. News and World Report rankings??should never be allowed to trump the fundamental educational mission...
...commission’s proposal to create a more comprehensive system of college rankings, however, is a worthy one. Currently, the major college rankings??U.S. News and World Reports and the Princeton Review—only rank the top few hundred schools. The creation of more a comprehensive ranking system would serve students across the spectrum of academic ability. In particular, students who are not applying to top-tier schools would be given tools to be better gauge which colleges will serve them best...
With high schools steadily abandoning class rankings??frustrating many college admissions officers—Harvard admissions officials said they are unfazed by the decrease in quantitative information that high schools provide about students...
...last meeting, senior Lindsay Weaver notched the game-winning goal, giving Harvard a 4-3 win before 1,611 fans at Bright. While Dartmouth’s scoring offense has dropped to 24th in the nation this year and the Big Green has fallen out of the USCHO national rankings??though they lead in the “others receiving votes” category—Schroyer said that her squad is still focused on getting a win. “We’re always going into every game trying to get as pumped...
...math scores—traditionally high. In another case, Monmouth University in West Long Branch, N.J., once overstated its SAT scores by more than 200 points. In 1993, even Harvard was found to have overstated its SAT scores by 15 points. Furthermore, a large component of the U.S. News rankings??25 percent—are peer rankings. In the November 2005 issue of the Atlantic Monthly, Colin Diver, the president of Reed College, said that some schools routinely rated their peer institutions into the bottom tier so as to propel themselves upwards. A proliferation of rankings without peer...