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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That’s the only data I trust at USNWR.  Everything else is easily manipulated, particularly by privates schools,  and has been an ongoing concern for decades. [/quote]

https://www.reed.edu/reed-magazine/articles/2021/rankings-gladwell-usnews.html

With the help of Reed statistics professor Kelly McConville and her students Huaying Qiu ’20 and Lauren Rabe ’21, Malcolm Gladwell zeroes in on a key element of the US News algorithm, the notorious peer assessment score. To calculate this score, the guide asks top college officials—presidents, provosts, and deans of admission—to rate other institutions. But as Gladwell points out, these officials often know very little about the schools they’re assessing. In a riveting exchange with an anonymous dean of admission, Gladwell examines the kind of impressionistic factors—”my cousin went there and had a good time”—that color people’s judgment. [b]Gladwell even interviews the president of Rowan University, who sends a bottle of hot sauce to other presidents every year in an effort to boost Rowan’s score (it works!)
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[b]The bottom line, as Gladwell discovers, is that the peer assessment score is essentially a function of reputation—reputation that over the last 30 years has been constructed, maintained, and reinforced by US News.
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