<p>Your concerns emphasize the difficulties with any ranking. Furthermore what is important to you or your child will not be so important to someone else. That's really one of the major problems with devising any ranking. Reiter's approach is simplistic for sure but I buy his argument about what are the major important factors for valueing or "ranking" a school. Others will not buy them. I respect that, but my main objection is to putting more value on USNews than it deserves because it really is a very arbitrary system with many non-rational factors. Any I think that Reiter's criticisms of USNews are valid.</p>