A Last Word on College Rankings

It's not a complete waste of time, but...

I used to pay a lot of attention to college rankings — too much, really. In the first three years of my WordPress blog (2011-2013), I wrote several posts on this topic. All of them essentially boiled down to four conclusions:

1. College rankings can be mildly useful to applicants, but not in isolation.

2. On the whole, critics were right to disdain U.S. News’ a…