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Re:Columbia whistleblower on exposing college rankings by waynesonfire on Friday September 16, 2022 @11:40AM (#32867627)
are you suggested that you wouldn't be able to spot an ivy league school if you saw one?

seems like it would be useful to have available a "nutrition" label for colleges, which has to be based on facts.

Re:Columbia whistleblower on exposing college rankings by rdtwo on Friday September 16, 2022 @12:47PM (#32868785)
By quality of education no. As a method of pre-filtering candidates sure it’s pretty obviously when someone comes from an extremely privileged background.

Also there isn’t really much difference between Cornell, brown, or pen graduates from Any of the decent state schools. Except they are full of themselves more.

Honestly the graduates from 2nd tier state schools seem to have gotten the best education but they had adverse selection coming in because their more competitive peers went to higher ranked/named schools.

Re:Columbia whistleblower on exposing college rankings by RhysU on Friday September 16, 2022 @01:36PM (#32869453)
I like this education label idea. I further suggest a couple of columns of numbers based on the outcomes for several socioeconomic groups. Most people can read the side of a cereal box.