Why does the number of schools on the Newsweek.com list get larger and the ranks of most of the schools drop after the list first comes out?
On the Web site we invite all qualifying schools we may have missed to e-mail us their data so that we can put them on the list. There is no national database that has the number of AP, IB and Cambridge tests and number of graduates for each public high school, so we have had to build our own. We are happy to capture the few schools we missed by using the publicity generated by publication of a new list. When you add more schools to any ranked list, most of the schools already on the list see their ranks drop. See questions No. 7 and 12 for why we rank, and why you should not pay much attention to ranks.
On the Web site we invite all qualifying schools we may have missed to e-mail us their data so that we can put them on the list. There is no national database that has the number of AP, IB, and Cambridge tests and number of graduates for each public high school, so we have had to build our own. We are happy to capture the few schools we missed by using the publicity generated by the new list. When you add more schools to any ranked list, most of the schools already on the list see their ranks drop. See questions No. 7 and 12 for why we rank, and why you should not pay much attention to ranks.
