ChatGPT College Rankings

Data10
Sat, 08 Feb 2025 20:15:36 +0000

NiceUnparticularMan:

Yes, this seems like a good idea. Asking it to tell you what to value is not so promising.

My experience is ChatGPT can also be useful to find criteria to value that you may not have considered, so long as you enter your history and goals, and ChatGPT can tailor the criteria to your history and goals.

For example, in the original post of this thread I asked ChatGPT to choose ranking criteria for me, after entering my history. It listed the following criteria in the columns – engineering strength, entrepreneurial opportunities, flexibility & independence, location & industry access, network & prestige, and cost with financial aid.

I don’t recall the exact wording, but ChatGPT defined flexibility and independence similar to ability to explore self-paced classes, classes towards degree online, special degree programs like co-terminal masters, flexibility in major requirements, … These types of criteria weren’t something I considered when I was looking for colleges, but in retrospect, that is something I would have really valued. It’s a similar idea for the entrepreneurial opportunities categories it selected. I also think I undervalued the importance of location + industry access when I was choosing colleges, which ChaptGPT highlighted. One can of course refine or add to the criteria with further requests, rather than being forced to treat the original list ChatGPT composes as gospel.