Family magazine Reader’s Digest has issued rankings on campus safety. Using a number of criteria that weigh incidents of rape and murder more heavily than burglary or theft, Reader’s Digest helps consumers to understand the relative safety of over 250 campuses.
I worry that such rankings will be taken out of context. Reader’s Digest is completely transparent about its methodology. But I fear that parents and students will draw the wrong conclusions.
For example, is Virginia Tech less safe now, in the wake of the infamous shootings? Shall we blacklist Virginia Tech now? Or are these sorts of events (including murders at a couple of universities in the list, such as Butler and University of Florida) aberrations that should not forever mar the institution at which these crimes happened to take place?
These statistics can be useful in a way. But like every other set of rankings, I believe that these can be taken out of context.
Mark Montgomery
Montgomery Educational Consulting
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Mark Montgomery
Mark is the Founder and CEO of Great College Advice, a national college admissions consulting firm. As a career educator, he has served as a college administrator, professor of international relations at the University of Denver and the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, program consultant at Yale and the University of Kansas, government instructor at Harvard and Tufts, high school teacher of French, and a Fulbright teacher of English in France. He has personally helped hundreds of students from around the world map their college journeys. Mark speaks on college preparation, selection, and admission to students and parents around the world, and his views have been published in major newspapers and journals.
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Mark Montgomery
Mark is the Founder and CEO of Great College Advice, a national college admissions consulting firm. As a career educator, he has served as a college administrator, professor of international relations at the University of Denver and the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, program consultant at Yale and the University of Kansas, government instructor at Harvard and Tufts, high school teacher of French, and a Fulbright teacher of English in France. He has personally helped hundreds of students from around the world map their college journeys. Mark speaks on college preparation, selection, and admission to students and parents around the world, and his views have been published in major newspapers and journals.