College Rankings

April 7, 2011

Bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell (author of “Blink,” “The Tipping Point,” “Outliers,” “What The Dog Saw,” and a host of articles in “The New Yorker”) has some very interesting things to say about college rankings. We at Ivy Coach don’t happen to agree with a lot of the things that he …

Categories: The Rankings

Tags: College Admissions, College Applicants, College Rankings, The Ivy League, US News Rankings

Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics, and Rankings

June 15, 2010

The magazines that rank our best colleges, graduate schools, boarding schools, hospitals, health plans, doctors, nursing homes, and high schools do so because they’re in the business of selling magazines. And, of course, we buy into this craze. Rankings have an important place in our American culture. Yet once you …

Categories: Admissions Process

Tags: AP Tests, College Admissions Criteria, College Rankings, High School Rankings, Ranking of High Schools

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College Rankings

Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics, and Rankings