A recent article in Inside Higher Ed reported on a survey of high school and admissions counselors conducted by the National Association of Admission Counseling. The counselors had the opportunity to “rank” the accuracy of US News and World Report rankings. The majority, 51.3% of college admissions counselors and 61.9% of high school counselors, said the rankings published in “America’s Best Colleges” were “not accurate at all”.
While we have often cautioned students against relying on rankings, this report validates that students should consider rankings as only a small piece of information on the colleges that they are interested in. There are so many other ways to research schools. In addition, the most important aspect to think about when considering a college is whether or not it is going to provide the right opportunities for you, not just if the college has the “right” ranking. If you really want to look at rankings, you might want to have a look at our own rankings that combine the systems of US News, Forbes, Academic Review of World Universities.
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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 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.