Colleges with Cricket

Corbett
Sat, 28 Jan 2017 16:48:37 +0000

And if “rank” is important to the OP’s parents, then simply use rank as part of the criteria. Not a component of it…

Suppose that you want to demonstrate that a small liberal arts college is a “good school”, comparable to larger and better-known universities – which is precisely the issue that arose in this thread. The problem with the “simply use rank” approach in this case is that the best-known college rankings, from USN&WR, rank LACs and universities in separate categories. So you can’t “simply use USN&WR rank” to make the point.

The alternatives are either to: (1) focus on specific criteria that can be compared across the USN&WR rankings, such as test scores, or (2) reference an alternative ranking that mixes LACs and universities, such as Forbes. I’ve done both of these things in this thread, and they both make exactly the same point. I suggested test scores first, simply because more people are familiar with test scores than they are with the Forbes ranking.