US News College Rankings Are Out, So Are the Critics »

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Students walk on the campus of Princeton University in Princeton, N.J., Aug. 30, 2013. Craig Warga/Bloomberg via Getty Images The latest annual ranking of U.S. News & World Report’s best colleges landed today, and they’re remarkable not for the horse race they seek to portray, but the bile they engender among critics. The Washington Post’s piece, titled “Why U.S. News college rankings shouldn’t matter to anyone,” takes apart the rankings as a useless beauty contest based on arbitrary criteria put together by the website’s editors. This year, the article notes, the rankings reduced “the weight of input factors that reflect… Source Main page (current trends)

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