Paul Glastris
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
So in 2005,
we created these alternative rankings.
And to understand our rankings, you've got to understand U.S.
news.
And they've all evolved over time.
But basically, what U.S.
news and most of its competitors do is they measure colleges by how exclusive they are, number one, right?
How few people
they get in, how many people they don't get in.
Number two, wealth, how much spending per student.
And it used to be they would measure the donors who would give them money.
And number three,
prestige, right?
Is this self-referential survey they do that asks other college leaders, what do you think of this college?
And it's all sort of, well, it's prestigious because people say it's prestigious.
So when you do it that way, you automatically lift to the top the Harvards and the Yales and the Princetons and the Columbias and the MITs and so forth.
We do the opposite, right?
We don't have any SAT requirements.
We're not looking at selectivity.
That doesn't get you anything in our rankings.