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If April showers bring May flowers, what does July heat bring?

Not August meat.

August is instead open season on college rankings — which are, of course, mostly fluff. The idea that the overall quality of U.S. colleges and universities can be reduced to a single number, which allows institutions to be rank-ordered first to last, is hugely problematic.

But it’s also hugely popular.

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Colleges that graduate students deep in debt

by Justin Snider, The Hechinger Report
August 17, 2010

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