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Very interesting, but I think the flaw with this method is that many students will still make decisions based in large part on U.S. News. For example, I would
by berberous 14y ago
Very interesting, but I think the flaw with this method is that many students will still make decisions based in large part on U.S. News.
For example, I would guess that a non-negligible amount of students that get into Harvard (#1) and Columbia (#4) will choose to go to Harvard in large part because they beat Columbia in U.S. News (and thus they perceive it has a better reputation).
So despite your interesting methodology, it will still be tied somewhat to the U.S. News rankings.
- carbocation 14y agoYes, I agree that students' perception of how others would rank colleges is a serious factor that probably goes into their decision process. This type of ranking will tend to reflect all of those factors that go into the students' decisions. Using just the data that we and US News make public, one could probably do a pretty interesting adjustment for US News rank. (We publish the Elo points for each college, so you wouldn't be limited to just rank-based methods.)