Rankings fever obfuscates value of a Yale education
Tomorrow, some of the most important questions many of us face as Yale undergraduates will be answered when U.S. News & World Report releases its issue of “America’s Best Graduate Schools 2009.” Will Harvard Law School upset Yale this year? Will the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine finally admit more than 6.2 percent of its applicants? Most administrators and graduate students will probably give no more than a passing glance to the rankings. But for those of us who are juniors or seniors, a graduate or professional school’s ranking could well determine our own value. We have learned to...
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