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Tram Nguyen Dr. Liu ENGL 1101 15 April 2019 Analyze and Write “What College Ranking Really Tell Us” + Summary: Author Malcolm Gladwell gave out the comparison about three sport cars: the Lotus Evora, the Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport and the Porsche Cayman S to show his argument about the ranking in life. In addition, he claims that the ranking sometimes can be very comprehensive and heterogeneous, especially in U.S News & World Report’s annual “Best Colleges” guide. In this guide, he provided many pieces of information about many prestigious colleges and universities such as U.C. Irvine, the University of Washington, and many more to let readers know more about how popular the ranking as well as the comparison about sport cars. On the other hand, he told us that college students should not depend completely on ranking in the articles or magazines because it is not as 100 percent about what is happening in those colleges. For example, he mentioned on paragraph 8 that: “Do professor who get paid money really take their teaching roles more seriously?”. This thing could be inferred that everything is not what it seems. Another point that author mentioned in this passage was the ranking did not include price among colleges. Basically, the tuition is very important for students when they first entered to colleges. Otherwise, the ranking turns out to be full of many kinds of implicit ideological choices such as graduation rate performance, test scores, etc make students very confused about which colleges are the right choice for them after all. Worse than that, some

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rankings include fake numbers about academic to manipulate students to go to their colleges. As a result, students should use the tip of “compare and contrast” every time listened to everybody about choosing the colleges or universities based on the ranking. Additionally, just go out and investigate what undergraduate students and faculties are doing on the campus of a college to make sure everything is right like they gave out the ranking for prospective students. + Analyze: Because author just wanted to give out one critical example about the ranking among sport cars that were relevant to the topic that he would discuss for the whole passage about college ranking. Additionally, some parts of the sport cars ranking such as style, price, etc are the same thing that everybody would pay attention in the first time. In my opinion, author apparently convinced readers that the ranking still has an influence on everybody’s point of view in daily life, not only in colleges or universities. In paragraph 2, he mentioned the cue that: “A ranking system tries to be comprehensive and heterogeneous – which is the first thing to keep in mind in any consideration of U.S News & World Report’s annual “Best Colleges” guide”. This cue is a transition from the ranking system of Car and Driver to that of U.S News. In this cue, he talked about the comprehensive and heterogeneous of the ranking system. It means that the ranking is not only the numbers, qualities but also many true stories behind the ranking. Furthermore, it is not the only factor that could be picked out and compare with other selections. Due to the engagement with faculty, author just stayed focus on the “faculty resources” as he said that: “The extent to which students immerse themselves in the intellectual and social life of their college – and a major component of engagement is the quality of a student’s contact with faculty.” Also, the editors of the magazine used six factors from the 2009-10 academic year to measure the quality. When he argued about “faculty resources”, he provided some information

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as evidences to support his argument by giving questions such as: “Do professors who get paid more money really take their teaching roles more seriously? And why does it matter whether a professor has the highest degree in his or her field?”. For me, I would agree with him about many supporting evidences that he just provided for his argument about “faculty resources” because some professor use the engagement of students to take advantage of them and treat them very bad in academic, as well as, some faculties do not even care of their teaching role to students at all. In my opinion, I would pay attention to the tuition of the college when evaluating a school’s quality. There are many ways for me to measure this criterion of the college such as browsing the college’s website, asking the undergraduate students and faculties, and many more. In paragraph 9, Morse finally added a valuable reason that made the whole argument of author to become more effective: a price because the ranking system did not include price for reference. This thing made students became more confused about choosing the prospective college for their whole college life. Anyways, it was totally conceded Gladwell’s point. In my mind, I think Morse’s response is very effective for author’s argument because it makes Gladwell’s criticism to become stronger and stronger. Otherwise, it is gradually convinced readers with the supporting claim. From paragraph 10 to 12, author definitely agreed with Morse’s response about putting a price in the ranking system. In contrast, he thought that Morse’s response was still very honest as he said that: “If we don’t understand what the right proxies for college quality are, let alone how to represent those proxies in a comprehensive, heterogeneous grading system, then our rankings are inherently arbitrary.” He refuted Morse’s response fairly with the normal tone. In my opinion, I think the chances have been separated for Morse and author because some people would follow Morse’s response due to the importance of a price in the ranking system but others are not. For me, I would agree with both of them because

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they had a lot of ideas about the ranking system that were supported each other such as price, test scores, etc. As a student, I would consider these criteria in the ranking system for reference if I and other students needed....