<p>I saw the best 361 colleges guide at Books a Million in Dupont Circle.
This book store is clearly lax with when they shelve books</p>
<p>The guide was not proofread well at all. They royally messed up Stanford's stats. They also screwed up the Swarthmore stats a little bit.</p>
<p>The top 5 academic schools were Williams, Swarthmore, and three schools that I don't remember off of the top of my head</p>
<p>Those have been out at Barnes & Noble's since last weekend.</p>
<p>Really no one has discussed the best 361 college guide...</p>
<p>Hmm... just out of curiosity, were UChicago or Haverford on there? I know UChicago, for instance, surprised people by shooting up to #1 last year when it hadn't been a top ten at all the year before...</p>
<p>I don't remember. UChicago was not number 1. It was some obscure college</p>
<p>PR is on crack. Seriously. Northwestern and Cal are harder to get into than Yale apparently...WOW.</p>
<p>Yeah, they clearly need better proof-readers. I wonder if they are hiring.</p>
<p>When are they released on the website?</p>
<p>Wait, I just realized... PR rankings are based on a student survey of all students, meaning these schools are the ones that do the best job of providing education to the AVERAGE students at these schools, right? Couldn't this simply (but not necessarily) translate into the schools that do the best job of not letting students fall through the cracks? If you were to survey the top 25% of students at all colleges, for instance, the results could be totally different. In other words, it's possible other schools do a better job of providing educations to the TOP students. Am I right, or am I missing something?</p>