So which college or university sent the most students to the 2016 Olympics?

There is no major rhyme or reason explaining which schools sent the most students to the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, just like there's no rhyme or reason to Ryan Lochte. Some things defy explanation.

In U.S. News and World Report's list of the top 11 schools sending the most students to the Games (you know, ties happen, like in the Olympics--everyone gets a bronze!), you find Ivy League, Big 10, Big 12, SEC, and Pac 10 schools.

The list:
1.  Stanford University, 29 students
2.  University of California-Berkeley, 16
3.  UCLA, 15
3.  USC, 15
5.  Penn State University, 13
5.  UNC-Chapel Hill, 13
7.  University of Oregon, 12
7.  University of Texas-Austin, 12
9.  University of Washington, 11
9.  Princeton University, 11
9.  University of Georgia, 11

If you're wondering where your no-name NCAA Division III backwater Podunk of a powerhouse college ranks, let's assume not too high.

Unless Cheetos consumption becomes a competitive sport, plenty of us from no-name schools will have to find our rooting interest in the athletes that matter. Like that flag bearer guy from Tonga. Nobody flag beared better at flag bearering like that guy. He won, like, six gold medals in flag bearing, I think.

Freshmen and bunnies are safe to roam: Mount St. Mary's University president resigns after comments.

Don't just sit there. Run, little man! Run!

Let's just cut to the good stuff:

Mount St. Mary's University president Simon Newman was quoted from an email where he talked about wanting 20-25 freshman to drop out in their first semester to boost the school's student retention rates, thus improving their scores on things like the U.S. News & World Report rankings.

"This is hard for you because you think of the students as cuddly bunnies, but you can't. You just have to drown the bunnies...put a Glock to their heads," Newman wrote.

Good lord, are these bunnies Rasputin? Drowned and shot? We all know bunnies are like the Terminator of small, woodland creatures. They just won't die. And, apparently, so won't college freshman, according to Newman.

I thought my elementary school principal was bad, and all she did was smell of musky perfume and yell at me daily. She never resigned though.

Newman did, as of today.

A new college ranking says your best bet is to go to...CUNY Bernard M. Baruch College?

A ranking of 900 colleges and universities by a company called CollegeNet focused not on prestige, but on how much bang for your buck you get for attending the institution. Specifically, how well do various places of higher learning provide improvement on economic mobility and how affordable are these schools to families of disadvantaged financial means?

The top ten schools according to CollegeNet are nothing remotely close to those found in the Princeton Review or U.S. News and World Report's annual listings.

CollegeNet's ten are (with U.S. News and World Report's ranking as comparison):

And where do U.S. News and World Report's top five colleges and universities rank on CollegeNet's social mobility index?

I think we all kind of knew on some level that what's-its-face school...hold on, let me look it up again...uhh...CUNY Bernard M. Baruch College was where we all dreamed to go.


Ranking Graphs: CollegeNet, U.S. News, via Yahoo

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.