College rankings: Yo quiero Taco Bell

November

Watch out Harvard, Stanford and Princeton—you may be perennial favorites on U.S. News & World Report’s college rankings, but when it comes to another ranking system, you might as well be safety schools.

Witness the 2007-2008 “Power Rankings” by CollegeHumor.com. The Web site used criterion such as “bar closing time”, “cute college girls” and “closest Taco Bell” (“Possibly one of the most important statistics we offer,” according to a CollegeHumor.com release) to determine its top schools.

Leading the pack was Penn State, with a total score of 100. Closer to home, New York University ranked 12th and Rutgers University ranked 30th. Two SUNY schools also made the 50-school list Ã¢â‚¬â€ SUNY Buffalo (#34) and SUNY Oswego (#47). Noticeably absent were all eight Ivy League colleges, along with Stanford, Duke, MIT and a host of other schools that did well on the latest U.S. News list.

Better luck next year!

This entry was posted on Sunday, November 25th, 2007 at 10:00 am by Alice Gomstyn.
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One Response to “College rankings: Yo quiero Taco Bell”

Jeff Deck November 27th, 2007 at 3:54 pm
Excellent, I’ll be sure to pass on this encouraging news to my parents, both proud Penn State alumni. Since I owe my existence to Penn State, I have always reserved a small, dark corner of my heart for the place. Plus I hear they have a football team?

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