US News college rankings -- hot summer reading
One of the most popular, but unofficial, items on summer reading lists for high schoolers and college kids is the U.S. News college rankings, which were released today. I bet more juniors and seniors read that list than "The Catcher in the Rye" or "To Kill a Mockingbird." There aren't a lot of surprises: Harvard, Princeton and Yale sat atop the university list and Williams, Amherst and Swarthmore led the college rankings.
The U.S. News list and other rankings such as the Princeton Review also give students and alums plenty to talk about. I'm sure everyone in New Haven thinks the list is wrong, while students who pass the John Harvard statue every day wouldn't change a thing. (And I'm appalled that the ranking criteria put my alma mater, Wesleyan University, in a tie for #12 among colleges. Go Wes!)
In Maryland, the good news is that the University of Maryland, Baltimore County was at the top of U.S. News' "up-and-coming" list, and the flagship College Park campus was 20th on that list.
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