Change in Smith's Ranking on USNWR

[CrewDad]

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Initially, Reed’s decision to boycott USNWR had a very injurious effect. If Reed truly wishes to boycott the rankings, perhaps they shouldn’t publish their institutional data on their website ;)</p>

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The most heated controversy arose in 1995, when
Reed College in Portland, Ore., a highly regarded liberal arts
institution, chose to boycott the rankings by not submitting
any data to the magazine. In the first year of the boycott, Reed
was given the equivalent of the lowest score among National
Liberal Arts Colleges for each piece of objective data used
in the magazine’s methodology. As a result, Reed ended up
in the bottom tier, an outcome that was more punitive than
logical. The next year U.S. News collected as much data from outside sources as it could and used
a different estimating approach for data that were missing. As a result, Reed moved into the top
40 among National Liberal Arts Colleges. Reed’s boycott continues today, as does the magazine’s
effort to collect data on Reed from other sources. That effort is made easier by the fact that Reed
publishes institutional data collected by what is known as “the common data set” on its own Web
site.

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