Sixty-one small relatively obscure American liberal arts colleges have reportedly opted out of U.S. News & World Review’s annual rankings of higher education, in what Bloomberg News is calling “the biggest protest yet.”
Although, top-ranked schools (like Williams, Amherst and Swarthmore) have expressed “concern[s] about the survey’s fairness,” those concerns seem to be largely outweighed by the satisfaction of being rated the highest.
Meanwhile, those (safety!) schools joining the rebellion against U.S. News stand by their decision to boycott the “reputational survey,” explaining that they’d simply prefer to “sit around in patchouli oil-stained bohemian clothes, sipping green tea and eating organic ramen noodles out of dye-free handcrafted porcelain bowls while listening to Rufus Wainwright on their iPods or writing touchy-feely essays about ‘The Feminist Mystique’ instead.”
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