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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And, as always, buried at the bottom of their methodology page:

"Niche takes steps to ensure data integrity, but rankings may be inaccurate if Niche is supplied with inaccurate data from schools, data sources such as the US Department of Education or spam and automated 'bot' reviews."[/quote]

That sounds like literally every other school ranking out there, including for colleges.  Take these with a grain of salt and use it as a starting point to research the schools, nothing more.[/quote]
US News isn’t much better, but at least their rankings aren’t based on data influenced by spam and bots.[/quote]

You just pulled that out of your tinfoil hat. Do you work for Niche? Like I said, it’s another ranking which will be flawed like any other school rankings (hope nobody puts that much weight on these when really making decisions; it’s a fine starting point).  But you’re making stuff up that’s extreme and fits your narrative.[/quote]

Anyone who takes Niche rankings is an idiot.

It’s based on self-reporting from the school community reports, I.e. which school’s parents and students go on Niche to rate themselves superstars.

Essentially, it’s a masturbatory exercise.[/quote]

I am sure that you have a lot of experience in that area but your statement is inaccurate here.
 
Niche's rankings are data driven and no other platform focuses more on ensuring that their stats are up to date, accurate, and complete.

Here is a detailed description of Niche's methodology:

https://www.niche.com/k12/rankings/methodology/[/quote]

lol[/quote]

+1 on the Lol.  Niche may have actual data to use when ranking public schools, but private school's data is not reported to the Department of Ed nor is it anywhere else accessible so for privates they are relying solely on the reviews/number of hits on their site.  [/quote]

In other words, just like any other school rankings you can find on the Internet that includes private schools, including USNWR for colleges, business schools, etc.  Name ONE superior school ranking that doesn’t rely on self reported data that’s not available to the public.[/quote]

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