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Bad EducationTwisted teachers! Suicidal students! Courses on "Silence!" and "Leisure." Come along on our exclusive tour of the worst colleges in the country Happily, most of life's decisions are reversible. Shoplifting misdemeanors can be expunged, tribal tattoos erased, Joe Francis can be forced by a judge to remove your underaged breasts from public view. But your alma mater, alas, is forever. Take it from us: The decision you make as a goofy 17-year-old will haunt you for the rest of your life. Luckily, we're here to help. Every September suburban mailboxes across the nation are stuffed with earnest periodicals that rank academia's most elite institutions. But it's not much of a challenge to identify America's best colleges. For millions of students whose SAT results place them south of Stanford, identifying the worst colleges seems like a far more valuable service. So three months ago, we embarked on Radar's first annual college survey, an exhaustive, semi-scientific guide to the most substandard schools in America. We began by gathering statistics on academic offerings, admissions, and student life from a diverse array of sources, including Princeton Review, U.S. News and World Report, and the U.S. Department of Education. (We avoided community colleges, technical schools, and the kind of places that advertise in subway cars, limiting our search to accredited four-year institutions with brick-and-mortar campuses.) Then we factored in criteria like low SAT scores, incompetent professors, rock-bottom admissions standards, unbridled alcohol and drug consumption, rampant criminal activity, and dubious alumni. To complete the picture, we added reviews from online outlets like Students Review, Campus Dirt, and College Prowler. Finally, we tallied up the numbers in a variety of categories, ranging from Ivy League schools to Christian institutions. Below are the nine colleges that made our 2006 dishonor roll.
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09/20/06
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Chico State is a great college! The people are awesome! Graduates can actually communicate and be social whereas students from a top college spend all thier time burried in books and come out smart as hell but can't speak a sentence to save thier lives. COB rules! Posted by: ChicoRules | August 24, 2007 11:32 AM < BACK TO Features |
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