Why is Brown not as highly ranked on US News?

Amadeuic
Sun, 22 Aug 2010 00:32:54 +0000

It’s really mostly useless on a year to year basis.

I mean, did Columbia get an international space station or something without telling anyone? Because otherwise I can’t imagine how it suddenly went from being the eight best college in the country to being the fourth best in just one year.

It’s more important on a five or ten year tracking basis, I suppose.

Otherwise, it just generally lets you know which schools are good or not.

Or at least which schools were good two years ago.

Basically, my decision on where to go to as a senior in High School determined that the ranking that then-Sophomores will use when applying, because they use 2009 stats.

I didn’t know any Sophomores. Seems kind of pointless to me.