I’m not worried about any college in the top 50.
This year a college could be thirty, next year it could be 27, or 40. I’d only worry about a precipitous and sudden steep decline. That is not Vassar, which has a $1 billion endowment and an A+ financial grade from Forbes.
In the 12 years I’ve been here, I’ve seen almost all of these colleges move up and down all kinds of rankings list. I’m more interested in some of the names we hardly ever hear of, like SUNY Maritime and University of Portland.
It’s also worth noting that a lot of these types of rankings are skewed by graduates’ incomes from colleges like Williams, where a lot of kids go into IB or similar. Not so many kids at Bryn Mawr are likely to be doing that.