Yale Daily News

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Colleges criticize US News rank criteria

Yale not one of the twelve private colleges to protest

Staff Reporter
Published Monday, March 26, 2007

The US News and World Report “America’s Best Colleges” rankings have been published every August since 1983, but many education administrators and college consultants are becoming more vocal in blaming them for providing inaccurate portraits of institutions and for heightening the stress of the admissions process.

Twelve private colleges are preparing an appeal to the higher education community that asks if other schools would be willing to stop sending information for the rankings, stop publicizing their ranks, or provide alternate data to the magazine that they think would make...

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