[2320] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: [Mit-talk] We're #1!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tao Yue)
Mon Aug 14 18:49:06 2006
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 18:48:36 -0400 (EDT)
From: Tao Yue <taoyue@mit.edu>
To: EspeonEefi <eefi@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <1155595115.6731.15.camel@ceruleancity.mit.edu>
Cc: mit-talk@mit.edu
Errors-To: mit-talk-bounces@mit.edu
On Mon, 14 Aug 2006, EspeonEefi wrote:
> Thus, this list is *not* for the edification of high school seniors
> looking for a school to go to (as the U.S.News list is). It's supposedly
> a ranking of how well colleges are making the world a better place /
> serving their country.
Actually, it could also be read as a parody. This is, after all, the
magazine that used to always criticize the USN&WR rankings.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2006/0609.collegeguide.html
A year ago, we decided we'd had enough of laying into U.S. News & World
Report for shortcomings in its college guide. If we were so smart, maybe
we should produce a college guide of our own. So we did. (We're that
smart.) We've produced a second guide this year--our rankings for
national universities and liberal arts colleges--and it's fair to ask:
Is our guide better than that of U.S. News?
18:29 -0400, Shawn Kelly wrote:
>> All true. But I do appreciate a list that ranks Harvard at #28. And 19
>> places below South Carolina State University...
I wouldn't be surprised if Harvard' ROTC students got counted as ours, and
that boosted our ranking. Which, considering the point the Washington
Monthly is trying to make, might say something about the reliability of
the data used to generated the ranking.
--
Tao Yue
_______________________________________________
MIT-talk mailing list
MIT-talk@mit.edu
http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/mit-talk
