🎧 Listen: In today’s episode of The Journal podcast, melissakorn explains why Yale Law School started a revolt against the U.S. News College Rankings, and what that could mean for students
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Brian Kelly: But I think we like to say we are the gold standard. It starts with US News and everybody says, okay, here's how we're not like US News.Speaker 3: Number one again is?Melissa Korn: I don't think the impact that US News Rankings have had on schools can be understated.Melissa Korn: Schools make spending decisions. They make admissions decisions. They make so many of their decisions based on what it might mean for the rankings.
Melissa Korn: Applying to college in the early 80s and before then, and frankly before the late 90s was very, very different than it is now. You had to apply to each school individually, so you generally applied to fewer schools. And even still, most people go to a college that's near them, and most people go to schools that admit most applicants for the undergraduate level. So this kind of battle about rankings is in many ways focused on those most selective schools.
Melissa Korn: Yes. Without a question. There are companies that schools can hire to help them figure out which levers are kind of the best to pull so that they can improve their rankings, right? Okay. If we change this one thing, if we get our retention rate up to this number from first to second year, or if our reputation survey average score goes from a three to a four, here's how much that matters, here's what that could do. So let's put a bunch of resources into that.
Siobhan Hughes: With so much writing on these rankings, Melissa says that colleges and universities have long raised concerns about the power that US News holds. For one, the publication doesn't fully reveal how it exactly calculates rankings. Siobhan Hughes: But then last year something shifted. That's after the break. Last year, Yale, the number one ranked law school, decided to revolt against the US News rankings.
Melissa Korn: And it had clearly been just this dam breaking because later that same day, Harvard Law pulled out and within a week a handful of other top ranked schools pulled out and within three months, 40 plus law schools had pulled out. Melissa Korn: Harvard Medical School was the first, and within a week there were four or five other top medical schools that said they weren't going to participate anymore. Some said it really doesn't say anything about the quality of our instruction. They look at student faculty ratio, but they don't talk about what clinical opportunities, what the rotations are for the medical students. And that's how you measure a med school.
Melissa Korn: So one of the main comments that US News has had, their CEO, I've had many conversations with him, he wrote an op-ed in The Journal, is that these schools are trying to shy away from accountability, that they don't want transparency, they don't want to be scrutinized, and the rankings allow the public to scrutinize them. So this is their way of just kind of closing ranks and shutting the doors and pulling down the curtains and being secretive.
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