I agree with D. Porreca. The special recognition given to one company's top-ranked schools in this article is a bit repulsive––as in, while I read it I kind of felt sick that my high school's newspaper is lending credibility to that bogus US News stuff. Maybe those students who were unable to "rise above the competition this year" to make it into "top" schools feel similarly? The informational weighting provided to that stuff in this article comes off as pretty boastful. It doesn't help my gut reaction to this article that both authors happen to be attending one of that one company's Top 20 schools. The other information is good, like the map and the infographics (besides that corporate US News-looking one that simply tabulates all the ranking talk from the bad part of the article).
What about the fact that someone's majoring in Pastry Arts? That's way cooler than the type of information given in the majority of the article's body.
I agree with D. Porreca. The
I agree with D. Porreca. The special recognition given to one company's top-ranked schools in this article is a bit repulsive––as in, while I read it I kind of felt sick that my high school's newspaper is lending credibility to that bogus US News stuff. Maybe those students who were unable to "rise above the competition this year" to make it into "top" schools feel similarly? The informational weighting provided to that stuff in this article comes off as pretty boastful. It doesn't help my gut reaction to this article that both authors happen to be attending one of that one company's Top 20 schools. The other information is good, like the map and the infographics (besides that corporate US News-looking one that simply tabulates all the ranking talk from the bad part of the article).
What about the fact that someone's majoring in Pastry Arts? That's way cooler than the type of information given in the majority of the article's body.