Young Man Goes West.

• Date: 01 September 2019
• Author: Glastris, Paul

By the time you get around to reading this, my son Adam and I will be driving his old SUV, stuffed, Clampett-like, with clothes and cooking utensils, from Washington, D.C., to Washington State to drop him off for his first year at Evergreen State College. When Adam announced that he wanted to go there, I was wary. All I knew about Evergreen was that it was nearly 3,000 miles away and the type of ultra-left campus that keeps Fox News producers employed. (In 2017, protests against a professor who questioned the tactics of a student racial justice campaign grew so intense that graduation had to be held off campus.) But then Adam pointed something else out to me: my own magazine lists Evergreen as the number one master's university in the country.

So, after fifteen years of publishing an alternative set of college rankings, I have become a customer. This is one reason why we launched the rankings in the first place: to provide the kind of useful information that students and their parents weren't getting...