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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Serious question, even does anyone believe- even for one second-that there are 270 schools better than NYU?

If not, then these rankings are bile and trash, assembled merely to get a Barnum-like reaction from the masses.[/quote]

It's not that they are trash...it's that their ranking methodology is drastically different than other rankings and they really don't give a good explanation how they are different.

As an example, University of Delaware (#24) gets a graduation rate ranking of 96/100 while Duke (#45) gets a graduation rate ranking of 77/100.

On the surface, it implies that Delaware kids graduate in 4 years at a much higher rate than Duke kids...which most people think sounds crazy.  Well, it is crazy.  Duke's 4-year graduation rate is 95% while Delaware's is 73%.  So, how does Delaware score a 96 while Duke scores a 77?  In theory, it's because Duke should have the same graduation rate of Princeton (at 99%) because the kids have similar test scores and demographics.  Yet, it doesn't...it's  4 percentage points lower.

On the flip side, Delaware should have a graduation rate that their statisticians believe should be much lower than 73% based on the test scores and other demographics of their students.  In fact, it is much higher so they get rewarded for this fact.

Again, these are useful rankings...but the methodology is quite confusing and not well explained.[/quote]

If that kind of logic is central to these rankings, I feel confident in dismissing them entirely.[/quote]

This is the exact logic applied to these rankings, and how the scores were calculated.[/quote]

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