In search of rankings alternatives
Dean of Admissions Jeff Brenzel wants to find a new way of ranking Yale against its peers — whether or not the College is number one.
Harvard Dean of Admissions William Fitzsimmons may have stolen the show at last week’s annual meeting of the National Association for College Admission Counseling in Seattle with his presentation of now-famous findings criticizing the SAT, but Brenzel’s pet project could prove just as newsworthy.
In a presentation with the anti-rankings organization, the Education Conservancy, the dean delivered a critique of the U.S. News & World Report...
As long as Benzel is in a reformist, damn-the-rankings mood, is there any chance that Yale will dump its yield-boosting early admissions program, as Harvard and Princeton have done?