It’s been an interesting week for US News & World Report, the publisher of the most widely read annual undergraduate and graduate university rankings. First, Harvard Law School and Yale Law School boldly chose to withdraw from the annual law school ranking by refusing to continue to report their data …
It’s a party! Or an exodus. Another day, another couple of America’s top law have decided to no longer release their data to US News & World Report for the publication’s annual ranking of law schools. First came Harvard Law School and Yale Law School. Then came the University of …
The University of California, Berkeley, School of Law has followed the lead of Harvard Law School and Yale Law School by announcing that they will no longer be reporting data to US News & World Report for the publication’s annual ranking of law schools. As we have said time and …
Loyal readers of Ivy Coach’s admissions blog know that there are a few guiding principles that have governed the admissions process for decades at our nation’s elite universities. One such principle? Where Harvard goes, the rest tend to follow. So when Harvard Law School and Yale Law School, the latter …
US News & World Report has, for decades, enjoyed an outsized influence on decision-making in the admissions process at America’s elite universities. Sure, admissions officers may tell you that they don’t care about the rankings but, do remember, these are the same folks who tell you their schools are need-blind …
US News & World Report, long the kingpin of the college rankings, has made a change to its rankings formula. That’s right. The era of test-optional admissions has spurred change at the publication behind the most influential college ranking. And why? Because US News had to figure out how to …
As loyal readers of Ivy Coach’s college admissions blog know so very well, we’ve got a crystal ball. Heck, our crystal ball has even been cited on the pages of America’s oldest college newspaper, The Dartmouth. And, today, our crystal ball has a reading…one we’re certainly not excited to share …
Remember when we reported that Columbia University announced, after the reporting scandal, that the school would not participate in this year’s US News & World Report college rankings? It seemed reasonable enough. Columbia, feeling it needed to make a public show of sanctioning itself for its dishonesty, would withdraw from the rankings …
Columbia University’s historic slide down the US News & World Report annual college rankings — from it’s plum #2 position to a tie for #18 — was the result of one of the school’s own math professors shining a spotlight on innacurate data that the school presented to the publication …
We know, we know. It’s like watching the U.S. Open after Serena was ousted in her third match. The Forbes annual college ranking doesn’t exactly have the gravitas of US News‘ annual list. In tennis terms, maybe the Forbes ranking is Venus. Sorry, Venus. But it’s a slow news day in college admissions so we’ll …
