US News & World Report has just announced its forthcoming edition of America's Best Colleges, due out in August. Instead of running to the nearest newsstand to pick up your copy, I suggest you remain at the beach reading something that has a lot more credibility, like how cow flatulance is going to ruin the quality of the air we breathe unless we kill all the cows.
1. From the announcement: "College presidents, provosts, and admission deans were asked to nominate up to 10 colleges that are making improvements in academics, faculty, students, campus life, diversity, and facilities."
US News actually believes that these people have nothing else to do and all the objectivity worthy of a traffic court judge to offer objective assessments on their competition. Colleges are a business, and in business there is always pressure to beat the other guy. US News knows they have to beat Time and Newsweek, and they would NEVER answer a survey truthfully that asked them to judge fairly what Time and Newsweek are doing to get better readers, as in, "What are colleges doing to get better students?"
Dumb gets a better name when you see the next gem of incredulity.
2. "We believe strongly that the opinions that high schools counselors, who play a key role in the college admission process, have about the merits of the nation's leading colleges will provide a very valuable source of information for prospective students, their parents, and our readers."
The ratio of guidance counselors to students is at least 350-to-1, and this publication would have you believe what a great impact guidance counselors have with their unique ability to reach out and touch the hearts and minds of at least 350 students at one time. That's with teens who have no family problems at home, or no adolescent problems at school. That would mean the counselors are totally undistracted and totally focused on undistracted and hormornally-driven teens who all seek real guidance in getting into college.
I wonder how focused and undistracted the students and guidance counselors are at Gloucester High School....
It's no wonder that US News is totally irrelvant to high school students and parents who need real information on the college admission process. Enjoy your summer vacation without the distraction of something totally useless for choosing your college. You might start here.
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