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Princeton loses number one spot in U.S. News ranking

Written by Daily Princetonian Staff,
Published: Thursday, August 21st, 2008

After eight consecutive years as the champion of U.S. World and News Report's famed "America's Top Colleges" ranking, Princeton dropped to second place in the 2009 lineup as Harvard rose to take sole possession of the top ...

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  • 10:02 p.m. on Aug. 21st, 2008
    Posted by
    Alum

    It is amusing that the Prince dumps on USNews now that Princeton isn't No. 1 anymore.

    In the past, there has been a bit more preening with pride!

    http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2006/...

  • 10:23 p.m. on Aug. 21st, 2008
    Posted by
    08

    don't worry Old Nass, I still love you

  • 12:43 a.m. on Aug. 22nd, 2008
    Posted by
    sophomoric

    Oh well, guess US News has to shake things up a little to get ppl to continue buying their rankings. The Prince absolutely should not extoll the Forbes rankings though, which have some of our Ivy brethren ranked below (or above, whatever) 100. Ratemyprofessors.com taking 25% weight? Puleeze.

  • 12:58 a.m. on Aug. 22nd, 2008
    Posted by
    P10

    As a wise pre-schooler once told me, "first is the worst, second is the best, third is the one with the hairy chest."

  • 3:45 a.m. on Aug. 22nd, 2008
    Posted by
    amory

    the food at annenberg hall sucks. enough said.

  • 5:03 a.m. on Aug. 22nd, 2008
    Posted by
    Violent_Quaker

    Meh, Penn is still at least 48% more awesome

  • 9:31 a.m. on Aug. 22nd, 2008
    Posted by
    07

    Bring Dean Fred back!

  • 11:51 a.m. on Aug. 22nd, 2008
    Posted by
    Reason

    It is sheer arrogance on the part of the Harvard administrator to think that parents should spend $160,000 in tuition plus additional money for room and board but not have any way to compare colleges. These ivory-tower types have no problem when it comes to using numerical rankings to decide which students to admit.

  • 2:37 p.m. on Aug. 22nd, 2008
    Posted by
    Malkiel sucks

    Stupid 4-year residential colleges, creating bigger classes, can't compete on avg. class size.

  • 7:50 p.m. on Aug. 22nd, 2008
    Posted by
    hmm

    actually ive found the food at harvard to be, on average, better than what ive had here at pton...but to each his own

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