The College Rankings Revolt

tokenadult
Tue, 26 Jun 2007 11:06:08 +0000

What are people proposing to help students choose which college to attend when they are admitted to more than one?

http://post.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/hoxby/papers/revealedprefranking.pdf

The core issue here is that colleges do differ, on one criterion or another, and not all colleges have the same appeal to students. The protesting colleges still need to make their own affirmative case for why students should enroll at those colleges and not others.