Okay, for YEARS, I've been trying to figure out why my alma mater (Lehigh University) can't get any love from its "peers" in the annual US News rankings for colleges and universities. Compared to the Ivy League schools who all garner high scores in the "peer assessment" category, Lehigh is always several notches behind and, dare I say, finds itself in the middle of the pack or "average" (for shame!).
While I've heard that Lehigh was always highly ranked as a "party school", I never saw anything in print and chalked it up to biased school pride and unsubstantiated claims. Well, that all changed today when I saw The Princeton Review's Best 361 College Rankings under Party Schools.
I have no idea how this happened but I'm guessing that those claims of years gone by are not so unsubstantiated after all. Do you suppose that this ranking is somehow inversely related to the "peer assessment" score calculated by US News? Hmmm. I'm not saying there is direct causality here but, c'mon, I'm thinking there's a modicum of correlation at the very least :-)
Posted by languorous at August 23, 2005 05:40 PM