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Harvard one of Newsweek's 'hottest' schools -- if you're hot to get rejected
(John Tlumacki/Globe Staff)
Some of the lucky ones -- Harvard students cheer on their team at last fall's Harvard-Yale game.
By Globe Staff
Harvard has once again made a list of the nation's top schools, but the honor given to the venerable school in Cambridge comes with a liberal dose of irony in this week's Newsweek.
The magazine, in its list of "hottest" schools, singles out Harvard as the "hottest for rejecting you," noting that it rejected about 91 percent of applicants for the class of 2011.
Two other Massachusetts schools also made the list. Babson College in Wellesley was named "hottest for business," with the magazine writing that "no school does a better job than Babson in teaching how to start businesses."
Smith College in Northampton was named "hottest women's college." The magazine noted that Smith is the nation's largest women's college and the first to start an engineering program.
The magazine says good colleges go in and out of fashion. It says its list is "subjective and temporary" and rather than a numerical ranking, a "quick but colorful snapshot of today's most interesting schools."
