This fall, as numerous college rankings hit the bookstores, I was curious to find an answer to the question: What is an excellent school? after a parent, prospective student or college recruiter sifted through all of this material.
There has been debate among admissions officers and college presidents over the value of ranking one school over another based on statistics, and those debates are validto a point. The rankings mean little to the best of the best; Harvard, for example, will not lose applicants for being the #2 school. They mean little to quality schools that charge little or no tuition, such as the military service academies, flagship state universities and specialty institutions like Cooper Union and Webb Institute. These schools will always fill their classes with excellent students, regardless of their ranking.
Rankings could however, mean something to families that have to make a choice between similar regional or national schools that appear below the best of the best, for instance a top regional university versus an excellent national university thats listed in the top 100. They might also help applicants make a choice between the flagship state...
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