<p>How am I wrong? Did I say that there are no people who would turn down Harvard or Stanford to go to Kellogg? What I said is that there are not as many as vice versa. </p>
<p>I’ll put it to you this way. I probably know 15 or so HBS students or graduates, ALL of which turned down Kellogg. I also know 6 Stanford MBA graduates who ALL turned down Kellogg. What do have to say about that?</p>
<p>I have no problem with Harvard and Stanford sweeping Kellogg in USNews, because I believe that both Harvard and Stanford are better than Kellogg. Again, don’t get me wrong, I think Kellogg is a fine school - but I believe that Stanford and Harvard are better. The yield numbers bear this out. The numerical admissions criteria bear this out - Stanford students have a higher incoming GMAT and GPA than do Kellogg students. Stanford has the lowest admissions percentage of all B-schools. Stanford admissions officers consider HBS to be Stanford’s true competition, not Kellogg. </p>
<p>But fair enough, you and I can disagree about how good Stanford is. That’s not the issue. The issue is that you must concede that there are anomalies in BW. </p>
<p>I would also point out that not only is BW’s rating of HBS rather fishy, but the fact that BW’s rating are so volatile is also very fishy. Whatever else you might say about USNews, they are more stable than are the ratings of BW. For example, you may dislike Stanford, but what exactly happened in the year 2000 to merit a #11 ranking for them? How exactly is it that Chicago can be ranked #10 in 2000, but then move up 8 spots in 2 years to become #2 in 2002? Tuck has been ranked anywhere from #3 to #16, and then back to #10 - what happened there? Do you really think that the true rankings really swing that much? </p>
<p>All of this chips away at the credibility of the BW rankings, and hence, overall, I would say that BW is less reliable than USNews. That’s not to say that USNews is perfect, as all ratings are flawed, but it seems that BW is more flawed than USNews is. At the very least, I would not say that BW is any better than USNews is. And that’s my basic point. I have seen no reason to believe that BW is any more reliable than USNews, and much reason to think that it is less reliable.</p>