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U.S. News: Bowdoin climbs the rankings
to fifth
KYLE STALLER
News Editor
For the second year running Bowdoin rose in rank in U.S.
News and World Report's annual college rankings.
Next week's issue of U.S. News, which will hit newsstands
on Monday, September 10, will show Bowdoin's ascent from sixth to fifth
in the national rankings of liberal arts colleges, surpassing traditional
ranking rival Middlebury (9) and leaving Colby and Bates at 20 and 22,
respectively.
Sharing the fifth slot with Bowdoin are Carleton College
in Minnesota, Haverford College in Pennsylvania, and Pomona College in
California.
A center of controversy year after year, critics charge
that the U.S. News rankings cannot possibly reduce all of the individual
qualities of a particular school into a set of data for ranking. Additionally,
ranking detractors cite that a ranking can never truly predict whether
a school is the right fit for a prospective student.
Nevertheless, complaints are few and far between at the
admissions offices of high-ranking schools. A high U.S. News ranking traditionally
represents a major coup for a college, serving to attract the best and
brightest students from around the world. Look for more in-depth coverage
of the U.S. News ranking and its effects on Bowdoin in next week's edition
of The Orient.