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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What weird (to me) is that Claremont is so high and Pomona is so low (191).  I get Harvey Mudd since all engineering and business schools always do well.

Are the schools really that dramatically different considering they are all the same consortium?[/quote]

No, of course not. This is how we know the list is based on made up statistics.

I mean the single largest score under "student outcomes" was obtained this way - look at how many steps it takes to get the score, based on subjective "metrics."

[quote]Salary impact (33%): This measures the extent to which a college boosts its graduates’ salaries beyond what they would be expected to earn regardless of which college they attended. We used statistical modeling to estimate what we would expect the median earnings of a college’s graduates to be on the basis of the exam results of its students prior to attending the college and the cost of living in the state in which the college is based.  We then scored the college on its performance against that estimate. These scores were then combined with scores for raw graduate salaries to factor in absolute performance alongside performance relative to our estimates. Our analysis for this metric used research on this topic by the policy-research think tank the Brookings Institution as a guide.[/quote]
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