CNN’s Fareed Zakaria sat down with Malcolm Gladwell (author of “Blink,” “The Tipping Point,” “Outliers,” and “What The Dog Saw”) to discuss the “US News & World Report” college ranking system. In the discussion, Malcolm Gladwell points out that the college ranking system is completely absurd. At Ivy Coach, we …
Students who just received admissions letters to the California Institute of Technology, you’ll be pleased to know that Caltech recently ranked at the top of a “Bloomberg” poll on the best value universities. In fact, CIT topped the list of the top 50 affordable colleges with the best return on …
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 …
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 …
