Yale and service

Washington Monthly ranks Yale 23rd in its social contribution. While I think it's fair to rank Yale well below the nation's top public universities, I have a nit to pick. WM's "Service" metric includes ROTC participation; for reasons dating back to the Vietnam War, ROTC has a very low profile on Yale's campus. But WM doesn't effectively track community service performed on campus, so the work of Dwight Hall, an independent organization on campus that generates thousands and thousands of student community service hours, goes unnoticed. Yale definitely felt like a place where service was considered extremely important; sadly, that's not reflected in the ranking.

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