<p>Alverno College (Wis.)
California State University at Monterey Bay
The Evergreen State College (Wash.)
Fayetteville State University (N.C.)
George Mason University (Va.)
Gonzaga University (Wash.)
Longwood University (Va.)
Macalester College (Minn.)
Miami University (Ohio)
Sewanee University of the South (Tenn.)
Sweet Briar College (Va.)
University of Kansas (Kan.)
University of Maine-Farmington
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
University of Texas-El Paso
Ursinus College (Pa.)
Wabash College (Ind.)
Wheaton College (Mass.)
Winston-Salem State University (N.C.)
Wofford College (S.C.)</p>
<p>The perfect way to sell magazines. Look at the list:</p>
<ul>
<li> all points of the compass represented</li>
<li> big colleges (U. Mich!), little colleges (Wabash!) and sizes in between.</li>
<li> state colleges, private colleges</li>
</ul>
<p>something for everyone!</p>
<p>Of course, the list has little bearing to our kid's plans etc.</p>
<p>I wonder what the correlation is between this list and extra adverts in the issue?</p>
<p>Sorry about my cynicism, but the publishing business, especially the mags, have taken this list stuff to impossible extremes. It's clear to me that advertising $$ and shelf sales seem to trump any logic or help to our kids or their families.</p>
<p>Success is a rather subjective term...</p>
<p>I have a hard time taking this list seriously when some of the schools on it only graduate 13 % of their students in 4 years...how can they say these schools "foster students success"???????</p>
<p>Concluding sentence from the article:</p>
<p>"These are not perfect places," Kuh says. "But they share a desire to be better than they are."</p>
<p>That describes every single college in the United States. They "share" that goal with everyone.</p>