No Use for Rankings

The article on college rankings (On the Campus, October issue) should not have been published. Those magazines, U.S News, Forbes, Washington Monthly, etc., can use any criteria they want to rank colleges, but they have no place or any justification that is worthy and rational to rank colleges, and I wouldn’t give the time of day or any attention to their rankings. No one should give any heed to their ranking articles, and for you to do so just gives those magazines an aura of authentication and respectability they in no way deserve. The mere use of “rankings” alone is absurd and cannot be justified for colleges or any other group in any way. Period.