<p>Fendrock – you beat me to the punch! FYI, Roanoke was not in the 2005 edition, either. (We still have that from D’s search.) But, U of Rochester was in the 2005 guide, but is not in the 2008 one.</p>
<p>Thanks for checking too, CBBBlinker. There are a lot of less competitive schools that are often mentioned on CC that did not make this book. Some of them made their best in the region books. A few others that I can recall right now that I do not think are in the Best 368 are Hartwick, Otterbein, Champlain, and Roger Williams.</p>
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August 19, 2008, 7:10am
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<p>I thought they had added Moravian College, as D was thinking of looking at it, and she is a senior. I looked at the 2009 copy in the book store, now I don’t think it was in the 2008 copy. </p>
<p>Funny about W & L and a feud! I suppose the schools that don’t send in their info to US News are the ones who don’t like their ranking.</p>
<p>Just checked – Moravian is in the 2008 edition.</p>
<p>So the question remains open…</p>
<p>Funny about W & L and a feud! I suppose the schools that don’t send in their info to US News are the ones who don’t like their ranking. </p>
<p>why do you say that ?</p>
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REED IS A SMALL, 1,200-student liberal arts college nestled in a neighborhood five miles from downtown Portland, Oregon.
<p>In 1995, however, Reed found itself banished to the rankings wasteland-the fourth tier where schools are listed alphabetically, placing it somewhere between 122nd and 161st in the country, bordered on one side by Nebraska Wesleyan University and on the other by Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. Why the nosedive? It opted, quite simply-and quite publicly-to retire from the beauty pageant.</p>
<p>Reed president Steven Koblik decided to withdraw the school from the rankings game after he read an April 5, 1995, Wall Street Journal article noting widespread inaccuracies in college rankings. Reporter Steve Stecklow had compared the information given by schools to the Money and U.S. News rankings with similar statistics colleges report to bond agencies and the NCAA. (While there are no penalties for giving inaccurate data to a magazine, lying to bond agencies violates federal securities laws, and lying to the NCAA can also have serious repercussions.)</p>
<p>Stecklow found numerous discrepancies between figures reported to bond agencies and figures reported to magazines. New College of the University of South Florida, for instance, boasted an impressive average SAT score of 1296 in the 1994 Money college guide. Its actual average score was about 40 points less. In what the school’s admissions director called part of a “marketing strategy,” it had neglected to include the bottom-scoring 6 percent of its student body when reporting to Money. Boston’s Northeastern University excluded international and remedial students-about 20 percent of its freshman class-in the numbers it reported to the newsmagazines. Monmouth University in New Jersey overreported its average SAT score by a whopping 200 points, a number the school told Stecklow was fabricated by a former employee. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York reportedly raised its selectivity rate by counting as “rejects” students who were admitted to programs other than those to which they had applied and students who were waitlisted and later admitted.
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<p>[The</a> University of Chicago Magazine: October 2001, Features](<a href=“http://magazine.uchicago.edu/0110/features/abuse.html]The ”>The University of Chicago Magazine: October 2001, Features )</p>
<p>Re post #11: I’m glad to see some explanation for the otherwise mind-boggling exclusion of the University of Rochester, when so many lesser institutions are in the book.</p>
<p>Prescott College, Prescott, AZ</p>
<p>Founded 1966. 689 students. Average HS GPA, 3.1. Campus size, 4 acres.</p>
<p>Prescott Students Say…
“Generally speaking, a typical student is one who prefers a style of life and education that differs with societal norms”…Many students attended a different college previously or spent some time in the workforce after high school. …Most people here are intelligent, caring people who shower at least twice a week, declares a senior. …Conservatives are exotic. I had one Republican classmate once, says a senior."
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