<p>Agree that the US News rankings should not mean much, but obviously they do to a lot of people and schools. Smartalic34 is correct, where Wes gets hurt is on resources. I have no doubt that a student today can get an education at Wes every bit as good as he or she could get at Williams, Amherst or Swat. The issue for Wes is what happens to that equation over time when Wes has 1/5 the per student endowment of those schools. Wes’s per student endowment is at the bottom of the top 25 LACs. Hard to sustain the quality if that does not change, President Roth has said as much.</p>