Washington Monthly strikes again, according to Aditya Panda ‘10 in recent post “Princeton Ranks Not First On Washington Monthly Rankings.” When I first received a copy of this publication’s rankings an acceptance package from UCLA in spring 2006 (despite repeated attempts to withdraw my application), I was convinced that it was a greasy underhanded attempt by the state almost-flagship university to snatch students out of their matriculation agreements.

The ranking on the flyer from UCLA ended at about #50 — just enough to include all of the UCs and highlight Princeton multiple times as being ranked near the bottom. The online publication this year, however, is currently doing away with its own clever façade in a not so clever way. Extending into the hundreds, Washington Monthly ranks Caltech as #109 — and honestly, I’m trying to imagine a significant fraction of Caltech students in ROTC etc., and I can’t.

And — perhaps fittingly, the rankings are accompanied by an article entitled, “Is Our Students Learning?“

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