University educations are one of the most expensive, time-consuming, and meaningful purchase the average American will ever consider purchasing, comparable to a

University educations are one of the most expensive, time-consuming, and meaningful purchase the average American will ever consider purchasing, comparable to a house. People will shape their whole lives around attending them, potentially choosing to move far away from their families. If there's a market for rating average purchases like headphones, it stands to reason that there would be a much larger market for rating purchases like colleges. The problem isn't that ratings exist. It's that relative rankings are hyped so much among perfectly good schools. I don't care if the University of Washington is five schools above or below Georgia Tech. I just need to see that both are "great," and a little breakdown of their pros and cons.