C. Thi Nguyen
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That example for me is a great example of value capture.
So there's a really good study of what happened, what college rankings do to educational culture in a book called Engines of Anxiety.
It's a book by Wendy Esplin and Michael Sauter, who are sociologists.
And they studied what happened when U.S.
News & World Report started ranking law schools.
The first thing they say is that exactly what you noted, right?
Like, so...
Law schools before the rankings used to have many dimensions of value.
Like some were more interested in getting their students high paying corporate jobs.
Some were more interested in social and community outreach missions.
Some were more interested in theoretical and legal scholarship and research work.
And they would represent these things in qualitative ways.
And the coming of the rankings imposed one particular judgment, right?
So the law school rankings are mostly based on incoming class GPA, incoming class LSAT score, and outgoing class employment rate at the nine-month mark.
So that imposes a very rigid sense of value, and it also narrows down on measurables.
So one of the things that they say that I found really striking was that before the rankings—
The process of figuring out a law school, which law school a student wanted to go to, would trigger a process of internal deliberation.
A prospective law school student would ask themselves, what do I care about more?
Theoretical work, corporate work, social justice work.
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