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...should come as no surprise when, in the next few weeks, there's a buzz in the air about the impending Y6B. (Note the catchy name, just short and cutesy enough to rank in pop-culture significance above the number of home runs that Sammy Sosa has to date but below that other infamous abbreviation, Y2K.) For the uninformed, Y6B is what interest groups have begun to call October 12, 1999, the date when the United Nations Population Fund estimates that the number of humans on this earth will rise above the six-billion mark...
...students with the aptitude to attend a rank 1 or rank 2 college, the returns to attending a more selective college has risen over the entire period since 1960," she writes in the final sentence of her study...
With the Aug. 30 release of U.S. News & World Report's annual college guide, the college rankings craze that began over a decade ago has continued. There are magazines that evaluate the per-dollar value of your education, there are books that rank graduate schools, and there are top 10 lists of everything from "Best Libraries" to "Best Party Schools...
According to U.S. News & World Report, Harvard, which held the top rank last year, is now the number two school in the country. The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) jumped from number four to number...
Administration officials at several schools have recently begun to question to methodology used by U.S. News & World Report and other systems that rank colleges, accusing the magazine of shuffling the rankings each year in order to sell more magazines...