I turned down Harvard, Princeton and Stanford for Berkeley's Physics programme

questioningbear
Sun, 02 Jul 2006 18:16:57 +0000

College rankings are the worst indicators of quality. Look at the methods and criteria they use for ranking. What if you want to rank schools by academics, but also throw in weather, food, city, the amount of hot girls, the low amount of douchebags in class, grade inflation ( its awesome), the amount of beer consumed on a weekly basis, or even, the amount of trees on campus? Call it the “Awesome college experience rankings” and you too can publish an annual college ranking list. Read the article below, and see what happened when Cal Tech jumped to #1 and Princeton was #4 in US News Week 1999, those preppies weren’t too happy that the people that design space missions beat them.