norwegian schools sorry for the delay in replying i've only just seen your comments on the norwegian schools i was expecting a reply on my talk page we've developed the criteria for assessing schools as we've gone along it probably doesn't make that much difference if a school is top or high but the idea is to have at least one top importance school from each country so far we've found the alumni to be one of the most effective ways to judge a school's importance but the system is inevitably subjective these three norwegian schools are amongst the oldest in the world and there might well be a case for making them all top importance especially if they were indeed the only schools in the country for many centuries it's very difficult to compare the three especially when the articles are so short i think it might be best to wait until the articles have been expanded and then request a re assessment