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University continues to send U.S. News peer reviews
Published: Thursday, September 11th, 2008
College-bound high school seniors and their parents took note this summer when Princeton lost its first-place spot to Harvard in U.S. News & World Report’s “America’s Top Colleges,” which hit newsstands Aug. 18.
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Fact check before you print. At least one other college besides Princeton and Harvard has claimed the top spot in the past twelve years.
For the record: The Princeton Review actually has 62 categories of ranking lists (too bad the writer didn't check these facts out at www.princetonreview.com). They are based on its surveys of 120,000 students at the 368 schools in its Best 368 Colleges book (students rate their own schools on various topics on the 80-question survey for it at http://survey.review.com). Princeton Univ. made several list this year few will find ungrounded: it's #1 on the list "Most Beautiful Campus" and on "Students Happiest With Their Financial Aid." #2 for "Best College Library," and "School Runs Like Butter" (based on how students rated their adminstrators). (See the 6 other lists PU is on at their site). Also, Princeton Review doesn't do a general academic ranking of the schools as US News does.
Aw. Princeton will always be number one in my heart.