3.
Did Caroline Sacks make the right
choice? Most of us would say that she
did. When she went on that whirlwind
tour with her father, she ranked the
colleges she saw, from best to worst.
Brown University was number one. The
University of Maryland was her backup
because it was not in any way as good a
school as Brown. Brown is a member of
the Ivy League. It has more resources,
more academically able students, more
prestige, and more accomplished faculty
than the University of Maryland. In the
rankings of American colleges published
every year by the magazine U.S. News &