Every year Princeton Review releases a set of rankings that colleges trumpet (“One of the Top Schools in the Country!”) or down play (“Rankings, schmankings”). Here is a quick look at which Division III schools cracked the lists related to sports. I wouldn’t take them too seriously after seeing who made the list of places where intercollegiate sports is supposedly unpopular. But they might help people pass the time through a slow off season.
- Students pack the stadiums
1. University of Florida
14. Wabash College
- Best athletic facilities
1. University of Maryland
3. Wabash College
20. St. Lawrence University
- Intercollegiate sports unpopular or nonexistent
1. Eugene Lang College (NY)
14. University of Chicago
15. NYU
16. SUNY-Purchase
17. Harvey Mudd College (part of Claremont-Mudd-Scripps athletics)
20. Emerson College
Note: Originally I had shown St. John’s (MN) on this list. The website says St. John’s (NM). I’m not sure if I read it wrong or the site had the letters of the state transposed and fixed it. I assume its the former and I apologize for my mistake. I still question the credence of this list given the inclusion of NYU.
- Jock Schools
1. Clemson University
3. Wabash College
Incidentally Wabash was also ranked #3 in best career/job placement services behind Northeastern (MA) and Claremont McKenna (CA). You can look at the all the rankings, including those not related to sports here.
Sports at St. John’s are unpopular…
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
That is the funniest thing I’ve read in a while. Somebody send the Princeton Review a picture of a home football game, please.
In related news, DisneyWorld has been voted the least popular vacation destination for families with children.
so randolph-macon made #4 on lots of beer, #2 on lots of hard liquor, #8 on major frat and sorority scene, and #6 on party schools in the latest princeton review. the administrators there must be absolutely cringing at that news right now lol
there must be another St. John’s Minnesota that we don’t know about here in then D3 world.
On the MIAC board they are suggesting that the Princeton Review might have intended to put down St. John’s College (New Mexico) but switched the NM for an MN.
Gordon do you have the original text?
Just bill:
Someone else alerted me to the same possibility. The site now says St. John’s (NM). I’m not sure if I read the site wrong or the site had the letters of the state transposed and fixed it later. I’ll assume its the former and apologize for my mistake. I still question the credence of this list given the inclusion of NYU.
They may have meant St. John’s College of Annapolis, Md. which has a clone campus in Santa Fe, NM. Their curriculum is to examine(discuss?) the Great Books which might explain a non-existent sports program. Princeton Review staffers would likely be aware of their peers choosing St. John’s instead.
Ronk:
St. John’s (MD) is already on that “Intercollegiate Sports Unpopular or Nonexistent” list at No. 13. The more I think about it, the more I suspect the error was mine and not the Review’s. That is, they probably had St. John’s (NM) listed as No. 2 all along and I messed up. I regret the error.
How does the Princeton Review gather the information that they use to create the rankings?