About Time

The NYTimes has a great piece of news about a number of small liberal arts colleges dropping out of the U.S. News World and Report ranking system. While I'm bummed my alma mater is not one of the colleges, I think it's about time these schools fought against the Reports quantitative rankings. I'll admit that I, as a middle class suburban high schooler, totally bought into this, but now as an adult I have to wonder why people would trust a subpar publication to guide this important and oftentimes very expensive decision.