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In Selecting Peers for Comparison's Sake, Colleges Look Upward
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Fuller, Andrea – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2012
When colleges look to compare themselves with others, they are not much different from high-school students chasing popularity: Everyone wants to be friends with the Ivy League, but the Ivy League is really picky about whom it hangs out with. Each year colleges submit "comparison groups" to the U.S. Department of Education to get…
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