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> I just find your kneejerk response of "Anything that rates my school poorly is wrong" and pocket dismissal is counterproductive to actually rating school perf

> I just find your kneejerk response of "Anything that rates my school poorly is wrong" and pocket dismissal is counterproductive to actually rating school performance. I see what you are saying. If their methodology ranked my school in the middle of the pack (instead of in the top 2%, which I believe it deserves), saying in effect that the advantages of a Rice education were those that its students brought with them, then I would be annoyed but I can see how that could be fair. But the bottom 0.5%? I went there and I know better. (And as an academic I know a lot about how universities work and how they differ from each other.) I do feel that I am justified in calling bullshit immediately.

jldugger 11y ago
> instead of in the top 2%, which I believe it deserves You would have to know how undergraduate education works in far more institutions than the average academic attends to have experiential data affirming that hypothesis. This is a problem in consulting academics about undergraduate college rankings, they know the researchers far better than the graduating classes, and generally rate one another that way. > an academic I know a lot about how universities work and how they differ from each other Which means you helped bring the average down, because grad school is 4 or 5 years of crap earnings.