If you actually look at the rubric, that statement is described as a vague response to the question, not one promoting an "incorrect" ideology, and the rubric shows other responses with more specificity that would be graded better. The source given by GGP cites this quote from another article by John Sailer of the Manhattan Institute, who originally pulled that quote out of context to promote a right wing culture war narrative for MI's flagship rag, The City Journal, which publishes an alternative college ranking that laughably ranks The University of Florida first. Caltech is 21st, below ASU, and Harvard is 37th. I didn't know who these people were fooling, but GGP demonstrated that it's unfortunately not nobody.