Saturday, January 18, 2014

What's in a name?: Being named on U.S. News & World Reports Top 25 Colleges and University list is more important than life itself.




Students apply to colleges listed on the U.S. News & World Report Top 25 at a higher rate than almost any other metric, even schools with higher quality of life ratings, according to the American Educational Research Association.

Ratings based on beautiful campuses, happy students, and overall academic experience are all important and influential, says The Atlantic, just not as much as being ranked on that list of top 25.

Obvious leap in logic: Depressed and miserable at college? The campus look like a dump? Feel like you're not learning anything?

It might be because you applied to a name school.

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