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Because of RateMyStudentRental, I'd love to see data that includes college student grade-point averages, retention/graduation rates, and quality of off-campus h
by JangoSteve 16y ago
Because of RateMyStudentRental, I'd love to see data that includes college student grade-point averages, retention/graduation rates, and quality of off-campus housing/landlord. My hunch is that the higher quality the housing, the better grades and higher retention/graduation rates the students have, but there is as of yet no dataset which includes the housing-quality metric.
- djhworld 16y agoI'd imagine 'quality of housing' is directly proportional to 'cost of rent' So I'd have thought that grades are largely irrelevent in this case, you could have a really stupid person with rich parents etc
- JangoSteve 16y agoActually I can already tell you from my own dataset that quality of housing has very little correlation with rent amount off-campus. An insane percentage of great landlords undercharges significantly and doesn't realize it (or maybe it's the bad landlords overcharging). Yet, because of the nature of student housing and the level of enrollment, all housing still seems to get filled at the same speed, whether under- or overcharging.
- SkyMarshal 16y agoI wouldn't be too sure about that. Dotcoms used to think that Aeron chairs would provide similar ROI. Now it's back to basics, excepting the actual computer.
- peteforde 16y agoActually, sitting on bad chairs all day still effects productivity in a negative way. I've bought several Aerons because I sit all day, and I rely on my ass. It should be kept happy. What killed dot-coms wasn't expensive chairs, it was a lack of sane customer development techniques... oh, and greed.