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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a kid at a school pretty high on the list. Seems fairly rigorous to me. That said - seems like a dumb list. How on earth could this be measured in any meaningful way? [/quote]

Maybe, say, if you have real resources, you could create a decent list by using data on the:

1. The percentage of all students who go to grad school.

2. The percentage of English majors, math majors, biology majors, chemistry majors and physics majors who take the GREs in their fields, and somehow relate that to the percentage who score over 770.

3. The percentage of students who start in doctoral programs at, say, three big universities and end up getting their doctorates.

4. Maybe, say, do a survey of first-year faculty members and ask them how rigorous the new school seems when compared with their own undergrad schools. There’d be some bias in there, but maybe you could use the results to create a pretty good relative ranking of which schools seem more or less rigorous to the new instructors.

If the list maker is getting $50 and has to use easy-to-get data, maybe just relate the percentage of students taking the GREs, MCATs, LSATs and GMATs to the average GRE and MCAT scores. And, say, to any other achievement test scores or certification test pass rates that might be available. [/quote]

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