Best college out of these four?

[vonlost]

<p>“The USNWR Peer Review is the best judge of Academics.”</p>

<p>Here’s what one college president said about that:

… a peer evaluation for which I’m asked to rank some 220 liberal arts schools nationwide into five tiers of quality. … I wonder how any human being could possess, in the words of the cover letter, “the broad experience and expertise needed to assess the academic quality” of more than a tiny handful of these institutions. Of course, I could check off “don’t know” next to any institution, but if I did so honestly, I would end up ranking only the few schools with which [we] directly [compete] or about which I happen to know from personal experience. Most of what I may think I know about the others is based on badly outdated information, fragmentary impressions …

[Is</a> There Life After Rankings? - The Atlantic (November 2005)](<a href=“http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200511/shunning-college-rankings]Is”>Is There Life After Rankings? - The Atlantic)</p>