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I think this would be an extremely interesting data set, but the obvious and simple analysis would not address the key problem that I see as mentioned in the ar
by vostok 8y ago
I think this would be an extremely interesting data set, but the obvious and simple analysis would not address the key problem that I see as mentioned in the article.
> On job placement, the biggest deception by prestigious colleges and universities is to claim credit for the brainpower and work habits that students already had when they arrived.
I see this all the time in my workplace. Many of my colleagues went to prestigious universities, but I am fairly certain that many of them would have gotten similar jobs even if they had not. There is evidence backing this up in that we gladly interview and hire candidates with similar pre-university experience who did not later go to prestigious universities.
It just so happens that prestigious universities admit students with such pre-university experience at fairly high rates.
My personal opinion is that the pre-university experience that I have in mind is a stronger and better signal than the university that they attend.
- rahimnathwani 8y agoThe data from UCAS would help distinguish between: - Someone who accepted a place at Oxford - Someone who was offered a place at Oxford, but went to Durham instead It should also help distinguish those two from: - Someone admitted to Oxford who decided not to go to university at all However (and perhaps this is the problem you have in mind) the data set for this last category is likely to be very very small. So perhaps the data can help to compare universities, but not whether going to university at all helps.