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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am pp.  So I think I figured out some of the Columbia increase in USNews World Report.  If you compare Stanford (tied at#6, 95 points) and Columbia (tied at #2, 97 points), Columbia has 82.5% of  classes with 20 or fewer students, and Stanford has 68.6% This is roughly a 14% difference on a category that is weighted at 8% of total. This appears to represent 1.2 points out of 100 points in the ranking, or over half of what put Columbia in the 2nd place, based on the weighting tables I can see.https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/ranking-criteria-and-weights

Basically, what this tells me is that these rankings are very easy to game.

People on this thread are creating elaborate fictions of why one university is better than another, but its really nothing to crow over, given that the criteria are so sensitive to relatively minor factors. It just means that the Columbia administrators were better than Stanford's this year at manipulating their numbers.

I have no affiliation with either Stanford or Columbia, by the way.[/quote]

Why do you call it “manipulating their numbers?” The core curriculum, which features a number of seminar-style classes, is the hallmark of Columbia’s undergraduate education and is a distinctive feature that sets it apart from other schools. Why is there so much nonsensical Columbia hate on this thread?[/quote]

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