And yet, despite the witty tone and obvious sarcasm of the website, Rojstaczer claims that some parents, students, and even guidance counselors still mistake this website for a serious ranking service.
For now, rankyourcollege.com stands as a comic warning to the hundreds of thousands of crazed college-bound high schoolers, and college administrations who value too highly “the fraud of media based rankers,” he says.
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Harvard just might make it to the website’s number one spot again some day. But hey, if it’s not, just click again.
—Vicky L. Sprow contributed to the reporting of this article.
—Staff writer Garrett M. Graff can be reached at ggraff@fas.harvard.edu.