Paul Glastris

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News for 10 years, so their college ranking was paying my mortgage.

I didn't work on the ranking, but it was part of what we did, and there was always within –

U.S.

news personnel a kind of sense that something was rotten in Denmark.

So when I took over the Washington Monthly some years later, we decided to do some investigative pieces about the U.S.

news rankings.

We found some pretty hinky stuff about their methodology.

And then we said, all right, smart guy, if you think you can do a better job, we gave ourselves the challenge of doing a better job.

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,

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