Finally!

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Someone is refusing to participate in US News & World Report's "college rankings." This pleases me because a) the "rankings" have little to do with educational quality and rely heavily on campus amenities (Mount Holyoke's ranking went up the year they installed a croquet pitch), and b) the reasons the "top schools" drop in ranking can be idiotic and anti-educational (Smith's ranking dropped several slots because one quarter of the freshman class last year was composed of girls who were the first members of their families to go to college).

Why do we need rankings, anyway? I sure don't remember this figuring at all into my college choice....