Word: rankings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...students with the aptitude to attend a rank 1 or rank 2 college, the returns to attending a more selective college has risen over the entire period since 1960," she writes in the final sentence of her study...
With the Aug. 30 release of U.S. News & World Report's annual college guide, the college rankings craze that began over a decade ago has continued. There are magazines that evaluate the per-dollar value of your education, there are books that rank graduate schools, and there are top 10 lists of everything from "Best Libraries" to "Best Party Schools...
According to U.S. News & World Report, Harvard, which held the top rank last year, is now the number two school in the country. The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) jumped from number four to number...
...would be one thing if the purpose of this rigmarole actually were to make sure students were qualified before giving them positions of responsibility. But as often as not, the process is unnecessary; it exists for its own sake, to give us another chance to evaluate, interview, rank, vet, accept and reject one another. Just like the old days...
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