November 3, 2000

'U.S. News' Plan for Mobile College-Counseling Service Gets Off to a Rocky Start

By ANDREW BROWNSTEIN

U.S. News & World Report, whose annual college rankings are a perennial source of controversy, is considering a new college vehicle in which a 48-foot tractor-trailer full of computers would travel to high schools throughout the nation offering admissions and financial-aid advice to students.

But the proposed "National College Tour" had a collision of sorts in October, when it was tested here before high-school guidance counselors at the annual meeting of the National Association

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