<p>While it’s nice to see Middlebury recognized in the rankings (as it is regularly), a “slip” within the top 25 is silly. When you’re within the top 25 there’s little difference in quality of education. Do you really believe that students at Bowdoin get a better education than they do at Midd? If this worries you, simply look at the USN&WR rankings. In those rankings Midd is ahead of many of the schools that it’s behind in Forbes. I can’t imagine that students at Pomona worry that they rank behind Midd in USN&WR. Rankings give you some indication of the quality of education at schools, but they do little to indicate fine degrees of difference between schools.</p>