U.S. News Anticipates Higher Year-Over-Year Changes in Upcoming Rankings

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Getting people to buy into the first 5 or 6 entries is indeed integral to gaining acceptance of the basic premise of a ranking as I recently found out in creating a list of National LACs. It wasn’t even a ranking in the true sense of the word since they were all listed alphabetically. But once they read Amherst, Bates, Bowdoin, Bryn Mawr, CMC and Colby - people were all in:

An Outsider's Guide to National LACs

Seems like USNews is tinkering with its ranking system again and some are anticipating major changes in categories and pole position: U.S. News Anticipates Higher Year-Over-Year Changes in Upcoming Rankings - College Search & Lists - College Confidential Forums And since the whole idea of a National Liberal Arts College might (still) be something of an oxymoron for most people, I thought I would be of service and give a veteran CCer’s slightly biased, thumbnail view of the main contenders. In alphabetical order, of course: Amherst - Probably the wealthiest LAC in the country, if you take a few billion dollars in endowment and divide it between just under 2,000 students and it shows; it has been on one of the longest-running building booms of any institution in the country. *Barnard - Try this as a Thought Experiment: “Barnard is an Ivy League college”, and you see what makes this original Seven Sister something of a puzzle thematically. Putting that aside, it’s a well-resourced LAC…