Columbia whistleblower on exposing college rankings
FTA "... all university rankings are essentially worthless. They’re based on data that have very little to do with the academic merit of an institution . . . "<p>While I strongly believe that a motivated university student can maximize their ROI at any institution, it would also be nice if there was an easier way for prospective students to identify schools that would offer the best opportunity for students.  But campus visits don't tell you much about actual classroom teaching experiences from the learner perspective.<p>Any ideas out there?<p>When I talk to high-achieving parents of kids picking schools, the parents seem to say that choosing a school was mostly a matter of coming up with some arbitrary evaluation function (eg, "wanted a small school with a few hours of home", "interested in a big flagship state university", "wanted an Ivy", etc).