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Posts published in August 2012

Bad data sinks Forbes ranking

A wrongly entered number in a government database caused Haverford’s ranking to plummet on Forbes’ list of top colleges, from seventh in 2011 to 27th this year. A footnote on the magazine’s page profiling Haverford reads: “Correcting the error would significantly improve Haverford’s ranking.” However, Forbes has no plans to…