We’ve also added back the enhanced CC Member Profile - if you view a member’s profile page, there will be a link to their Stats Profile (if they have one) and their most recent visit reports (if any).
As always, please post a bug report if you find anything strange…
Its kind of a pain to have to scroll up and down to see what the grades correspond to. Is it possible to have a moving top row? (For example, we have to scroll all the way up to the top or bottom to see that the B+ is for Off Campus dining. It might be easier to just make a row or two extra in the middle.
It would also be very helpful if you could explain the methodology behind the “rankings.”
What are they based on? What factors were used? How were they weighted? How was the data obtained for these rankings? Student surveys? If so, how many students were surveyed at each school and when?
You know, all that pesky statistical reliability stuff. Otherwise, prospective students looking at these schools have no idea of the validity of these “rankings.”
Interesting, but only if one is interested soley in large or ‘name-brand’ colleges. Altho, one would think Wisconsin-Madison would be included in that group. It does make one curious as to what the scores/rankings come from as they miss including so many colleges that are otherwise included in most major publications such as those by Princeton Review, Biased…
ummm the academics at cornell u (and a few others…ahem ) are a B+??? over american, college of wooster? somehow i find that hard to believe…
where do these come from???
Ah, I see now. These “rankings” are just an attempt to promote and sell the individual guides of the other organization you’ve “teamed up” with.
Now I understand why there is no methodology specified. Those “grades” in those guides are mainly based on the opinion the single student at each school who wrote the guide book. They don’t have any methodology either.
So these are NOT comparisons between schools in any way, and therefore not really “rankings” at all. They’re individual student ratings. OK. Got it.
why are the uc’s like ucla and cal berk not ranked>>
Because the guidebooks for those schools probably haven’t been written yet. Kids, these are NOT “rankings.” Ratings, maybe. But, like all purported “ranking” or “rating” systems, take them with a heavy grain of salt unless you know what they are based on and who is behind them.
If you click on the school link you’ll get a bit more background. As far as I know, the ratings are done by surveying students. It’s probably not a truly scientific sample, though I’m sure if the food gets a failing grade it’s probably a reasonable indicator that the food at that school isn’t great. I probably wouldn’t read a lot into minor distinctions, and expectations may vary from campus to campus.
I’m not sure what the guy/girl rankings mean exactly, but I’d guess it would be a subjective opinion of the oppositely-gendered students.
The strictness thing is a good question - I guess the response might depend on whether you valued strictness or were trying to avoid it. I presume the survey question spelled out some kind of structure for the answer.
I wouldn’t base a college decision on these, or any other, rankings. A high or low score for a school you are interested in might be an indication to dig deeper in that area. Of course, they hope you’ll buy the book for the school which reproduces comments on each area and might give you more details about why a particular area is rated high or low.
This particular rating/ranking data exists only for a couple of hundred schools right now - please don’t as us to add a particular school, because that’s out of our control.
At CC, we actually have 400+ colleges with individual discussion forums and the ability to add visit reports or specify them in Stats Profiles. Those are the areas that we can control.
So all this is, is a summary of another company’s series of college guidebooks? That’s it? And not a particularly highly-regarded guidebook at that. You guys can do better than this.
chill out, you guys. say “thank you” for the additional information. if you don’t want to use it, don’t. click on the link, decide it isn’t for you, end of story.
rankings wont be anywhere approaching some sort of accuracy until one group of people start visiting colleges one by one, with an objective and systematic evaluation.
how much do you want to bet that people voting on this stuff have never set foot on these campuses, and just take the information they’ve heard in passing, if they’ve heard of the school at all…
From a technical standpoint, I’d have to say that this chart is hard to look at and compare. I find myself straining my eyes after looking at only one school’s stats.
Perhaps when we click on the school it will display its stats in an individual page. Maybe if we feel like getting real fancy, we can be able to choose a few schools from the list and compare them.
