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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Personally, I don't care about the aggregated methodology rankings.  Am I missing something bc isn't it some dude on reddit? If anything, it makes more sense to pay attention to the list that prioritizes what matters to your family (Ie. cost is a factor, look at lists about value).

I look at USNWR generally to see where schools fall but a school moving up or down a few spots isn't going to change where my kid applies.  Nor is it going to make me love my alma mater more or less or think differently about my experience there.

In fact, my senior was joking that he hoped his school fell a few spots in the rankings so perhaps fewer kids would apply. :)[/quote]

Ha that's not a bad idea! I'm sure some of the kids who want Columbia are relieved that it might get slightly less love with the recent scandal! I just checked out the reddit post and it seems that the ranking is just based on the average of all the rankings, so it's not really based on the opinions of the creator him/herself. And there's also a breakdown of what a lot of the lists specialize in, I can find it for you it's buried in the comments!

"That's actually exactly the reason I included all 13, so that their methodologies balance out to find the schools that are excellent across the board. In a nutshell, the rankings like Forbes, Washington Monthly, and Money care more about which schools provide high social mobility and opportunity access for lower income students while minimizing debt, rankings like WSJ/THE, Degree Choices, and WalletHub care more about pure earning potential, student outcomes, and ROI, rankings like US News, College Raptor, and College Simply care more about the achievements of students entering the college, the resources of the college, and the reputation of the college, and rankings like Niche and College Consensus care more about the overall student experience beyond just academics, such as student satisfaction/happiness, food, campus life and amenities, etc. So, by finding which schools are the best through my aggregate ranking, we find which schools succeed in all of these manners that singular rankings such as US News or Forbes might undervalue or miss completely."[/quote]

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