<p>America's</a> Best Colleges - Forbes.com</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>The methodology is poor. They use RateMyProfessors.com rankings, for goodness sake.</p>
<p>swarthmore is good, but it already has a similar ranking on USNWR, and frankly, those forbes rankings are way off. macalester at 126? dartmouth at 127? ridiculous!</p>
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macalester at 126? dartmouth at 127? ridiculous!
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<p>True, but somehow the generally recognized 'top' colleges stayed on top. Harvard, Princeton, Swarthmore, Amherst, Yale, and Williams are all highly ranked by USNWR. It seems that the top ten as ranked by USNWR really delineate the good and wretched<a href="that%20color%20is%20brown,%20in%20case%20you%20were%20wondering">/i</a> schools in America. Perhaps the so-called lesser Ivies are, in fact.... *lesser. </p>
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<p>Nope the methodology is garbage.</p>
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Nope the methodology is garbage.
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<p>Can't we have a little fun on this forum? Let's embrace this, instead of stalely analyzing it. It's not like Forbes was the same magazine to release the data that showed Dartmouth grads, on average, made more money than the grads of the other Ivies.</p>
<p>I'm not familiar enough with Macalaster to comment, but I'm not impressed at all with Dartmouth. The fraternity scene and binge drinking alone should disqualify it from top-rank status.</p>
<p>Do you even know anything about Dartmouth? The frat scene is far from a southern frat scene - its open and friendly. People drink as much at Harvard and Columbia, they just do it covertly.</p>
<p>Dartmouth is consistantly top 5 in placing its graduates into top professional schools, is #1 in the US for placing students into the peace corps, is among the top 5 at elite recruiting, and is among the richest schools in the country on an endowment per student basis. The reson Dartmouth didn't do well in this study is because Dartmouth has its own internal professor rating system, meaning students didn't use ratemyprofessors.com! Sorry Dartmouth, you got burned for doing something right.</p>
<p>TheDartmouth.com</a> | College responds to Forbes.com rankings</p>
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The reson Dartmouth didn't do well in this study is because Dartmouth
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Do you even know anything about Dartmouth?
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<p>Yes. I do know a little bit about Dartmouth. I have three members of my close family who are Dartmouth grads (College, Med School, and Engineering), including one who graduated in June.</p>