Yale Law School started the exodus last November: Dozens of law and medical schools, many among America’s most elite, vowed not to cooperate with the U.S. News & World Report rankings juggernaut.
Critics of the rankings dared to hope that undergraduate programs at the same universities would defect, too.
Yale, Harvard and dozens of other universities continued to submit data for U.S. News’s annual undergraduate rankings, the 2024 edition of which will be released on Monday.
That the rebellion went only so far, for now, has underscored the psychic hold that the rankings have on American higher education, even for the country’s most renowned schools.
The rankings remain a front door, an easy way to reach and enchant possible applicants.
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“ It’s, ”, Eric J, Gertler
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Yale Law School, U.S . News, Yale, Harvard