> 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 acad

> 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.