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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...
Unlike U.S. News & World Report, which ranks schools based on wide ranging evaluations from peer assessment scores to alumni giving rates, The Atlantic Monthly’s tabulation was determined by only three factors: admission rate, SAT scores and high school class rank. Three simple factors cannot capture the quality of learning or the varied facets of a successful college experience. But it is not necessarily true that the more complex and arguably more subjective U.S. News & World Report methodology yields rankings that are any more appropriate. The immense diversity of colleges and the many intangible features of a successful...
...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...