<p>This is probably one of the best senior columns I've ever read in spectator, and it's something everyone applying to college should read. In summary it says this: you don't know nearly enough about college to make a well-informed decision about where to go, or make most of your major life decisions, so stop trying to quantify everything (cough USNews cough). Learn to trust your gut over hard numbers and statistics, which after a certain point (and in same cases, always) become meaningless and hollow. </p>
<p>The author is not only an econ-math major who'll be working for the federal reserve bank next year, he's pretty much a genius and will be speaking at class day as the CC '07 Salutatorian.</p>
<p>I had the same experience as Nick- 3 grad students and one adjunct. Statistically speaking I should be howling in protest about getting gypped. But they were all awesome instructors. </p>
<p>When you're applying to college, by comparison, you're looking at things like student:faculty ratio, something that's also taken into account by USNews. These things don't really matter in the end.</p>