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When College Rankings Are Inflated

New York Times - Letters to the Editor

February 8, 2012

Re "Gaming the College Rankings" (news article, Feb. 1): On the one hand, college admission officers disdain the U.S. News & World Report rankings. On the other, they slavishly fall in line - and sometimes cross it - trying to move up a few notches in the rankings. Perhaps they need some remedial work on definitions, starting with "paradox" and "hypocrisy."

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