When students have choices among top colleges, which one do they choose?

September 23, 2015 at 7:00 a.m. EDT

Stanford University, in Palo Alto, Calif., tops another new ranking. But the rest of the Parchment Top 25 might surprise you. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)

This is the time of year when college rankings proliferate to capture the attention of a new crop of high-school seniors searching for the right campus. In recent months, I’ve written about two fairly new entrants to the rankings game that are worth checking out for their unique methodology, Money magazine and LinkedIn.