<p>I wrote in this thread, back in April, </p>
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If someone has a better suggestion in this thread for comparing colleges than the federally gathered IPEDS data, which we can all compare on College Results Online</p>
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<p>or the Common Data Set data, which most colleges display on their Web sites and which is the basis for the College Board college search feature</p>
<p><a href=“College Search - BigFuture | College Board ”>College Search - BigFuture | College Board ; </p>
<p>then I would be glad to consider the suggestion. But that a coalition of liberal arts colleges feels its ox is gored when high school students apply to privately operated or state operated research universities is hardly news. If those colleges sincerely believe that they offer better teaching and thus better quality, they should start doing the teaching now by showing all the stakeholders how they can compare colleges on the basis of teaching quality or whatever other desirable characteristics they claim to have.
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<p>So, I ask again in August, where are the suggestions from the colleges that have chosen to boycott the U.S. News peer assessment survey about how better to provide data on colleges? The colleges I know best on the boycott list hardly inspire confidence as paragons of high-quality education.</p>