Academic Ranking May Well Motivate Some Students, Alienate Other People
The consequences of misreporting generally involve becoming pulled from the list, but on occasion they have been harsher. In the new rankings, Princeton ranks 1st, M.I.T. is second, and Harvard, Yale and Stanford are tied for third. Last year, Columbia was second to Princeton and tied with Harvard and M.I.T. Soon after originally defending its data, Columbia announced in June that it was withdrawing from the subsequent set of rankings because of the questions raised by Dr. Thaddeus. U.S. News…