Meeting looks past rankings
Administrators, experts discuss alternatives to U.S. News ‘Best Colleges’
Admissions experts convened at Yale on Tuesday, taking a first step towards devising better alternatives to the annual U.S. News and World Report “Best Colleges” rankings.
Approximately 100 college presidents, admissions deans, researchers, professors, high school counselors, parents and students participated in the “Beyond the Rankings” conference, which was sponsored by the Education Conservancy. The president of the conservancy, Lloyd Thacker, has led efforts to protest the stranglehold the U.S. News rankings have on the college admissions research process. While the schools did...
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