Why is Brown not as highly ranked on US News?

chsowlflax17
Thu, 19 Aug 2010 01:47:48 +0000

I’ve heard from elsewhere, but it would actually make a lot more sense to rank specific things, rather than having some “formula” for figuring out which school, based on certain hard data, is best. You may as well take an opinion poll (oh wait, that’s what the PA score is). Unfortunately, “rankings” and “prestige” sells magazines (isn’t that basically all that Forbes Magazine is?). But yeah, the Princeton Review, while having somewhat laughable methodology in a lot of its categories (like Happiness. Really, you have a way of accurately measuring that? And a poll is going to do that/ they definitely don’t poll the whole student body), it makes sense to give rankings in categories, rather than across the board. Look, these schools have the highest test scores. These schools reject the most seemingly well-qualified applicants. These schools have the most research dollars awarded to them, etc.