<p>Agentninetynine: I would be curious if you found DIY to have info on every criterion you wanted. In this day and age, it seems very possible to provide such a service–kudos to DIY for offering such a service. I will check them out as well.</p>
<p>indeed–the student needs to do his or her own homework, even if the criteria and weighting used can be idiosyncratic.</p>
<p>No, Keith, but it was a great starting point for DD’s search. The DIY woman also has a very informative blog, highlighting various schools by state, discussing the latest in college app issues. We also have access to Naviance, which is an interesting search engine.
Spygirl especially loves the male to female stats :)</p>
<p>Another interesting source of data is now provided by LinkedIn. They have been advertising on USNWR college ranking web pages, with a link on the lower right titled something like “where are they now?”. It shows the top occupations and lots of other information from their vast database on graduates of most colleges.</p>
<p>Agentninetynine: Nice to see how spygirl is an active participant in this exercise. I winced when I heard some of the criteria important to my own kids, but in the end, they are the ones who have to live with the decision.</p>