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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/papers/1287.pdf

Use something similar to this methodology and Sidwell comes out on top, I'd bet.[/quote]

For those who just scrolled down and found Harvard as #1. The paper clearly states....

"[i]Because we do not have a fully representative sample of college applicants, we rank only about a hundred undergraduate programs and our ranking is an example, not definitive."[/i]

This is an example of how they may rank schools if they ever did. They are proving a "method" they are not ranking schools. The method is the same used for ranking chess players. They want to see if the method would work for colleges.)\

It's actually very telling because they go on to say...

[i]"Colleges do not necessarily want to manipulate their matriculation rate and admissions rate; they feel compelled to do so[/i]."

Which is why SAT, AP and NMS are important in MCPS and the privates here - not that it is meaningful but that is how they are ranked so they feel compelled to manipulate the system. The purpose of this paper is to see if they can find a ranking that can "eliminate manipulation" of these numbers.

So admission rates are not a good measurement - or we must believe this right because Wharton said so... (tounge in cheek)

"[i]In Section II of the paper, we further discuss the weaknesses of using the matriculation rate and the admissions rate as measures of revealed preference, and show how these measures can easily be manipulated."[/i]

They also go on to say...

"Although the sample was constructed to include students from every region of the country, it is intentionally representative of applicants to highly selective colleges and therefore non-representative of American high
school students as a whole."

So in short - I agree to the person that posted this link this is a good way to rank Sidwell because DCUM posters are NOT representative of families with 8th graders in DC/VA/MD as a whole.[/quote]

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