Somebody Still Loves You, Harvard University
Posted on August 22, 2008
Filed Under News, The Daily Prereq | By Jessica Dye
Poor Harvard. Since 1996, they haven’t had the number-one spot atop U.S. News & World Report’s annual college rankings all to themselves. Either they’ve shared it or seen it awarded to rival Ivies like Princeton and Yale (and that one time it went to Caltech….but we don’t like to talk about that). Well, give yourselves a big pat on the back, Harvard–you’re finally number one again! According to the AP, the new US News rankings have Harvard edging out Princeton (#2) and Yale (#3) to finally get the recognition it sorely needs. Sources say Harvard won out because of the number of small classes it has added over the last few years. Yeah, it’s the frickin’ comeback of the year.
Meanwhile, the Princeton Nation wonders–what went wrong? Was it this girl? We’ll send her back–that’s got to cut a few class sizes right there.
Of course, that’s not all the controversy stirring over the release of the annual rankings. Amherst and Williams College tied for #1 over on the liberal arts charts, and UC Berkeley (#21) barely edged out in-state rivals UCLA (#25) for the top public-university honors. MIT beat out Stanford and UC Berkeley to claim the top engineering spot, but Harvard’s nerdier neighbor loses the best business program honors to the University of Pennsylvania. Hey–now that Michael Phelps has moved onto endorsing Frosted Flakes, we’ve got to feed our competition fix somehow.
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