<p>What if Reed participated in USNWRs college rankings? Where do you think the school would rank? I know Reed is listed on the list at 54th, but the school does not provide with USNWR with enough information to make a more appropriate listing.</p>
<p>Where, in your mind, should Reed be ranked?</p>
<p>I thought US News imputes the variables for Reed even if Reed does not provide the information directly (a change from the magazine's "stick" strategy from 10 years ago when it was assigning the lowest values in the group to Reed).</p>
<p>I read somewhere that before choosing to withdraw from those rankings, Reed was among the top 10 colleges.
I would say that it would be the same now, with an average gpa of 3.9 of all incoming classes, high SAT scores.
The only drawback that I can think of is the graduation rate in 4 years, which is kinda low.. like 58% or stg.</p>
<p>At a campus information session I was told the graduation rate in 4 years was more like 70%.</p>
<p>They input "estimated" variables for anything they can't find on Reed's website. They have no idea what many of the actual variables are.</p>
<p>Reed</a> College 2007-08 Common Data Set SecB says that the four-year rate is 58% but the six-year rate (most often quoted by colleges due to time off taken by many students, and the only percentage in the Common Data Set form) is 75%.</p>
<p>The graduation rate performance effectively constitutes (20% + 5% for two components) a fourth of the overall score. If it is really a 58%, it will be nearly impossible for it to rank anywhere in the top 25 liberal arts schools even if it makes up by a very good performance on the other indicators. What is Reed's alumni giving %? I wouldn't be surprised, given the academic nature of its alumni pursuits, that is not as high as that of some of its peer colleges.</p>