<p>Not sure if this has been posted yet.</p>
<p>It won’t post the link to m y c h a n c e s . n e t. <a href=“http://college.m%5B/url%5D”>http://college.m</a> y c h a n c e s. n e t /college/college-rankings.php?thisCategory=ALL&thisYear=2009</p>
<p>Uses elo points:
[Elo</a> rating system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elo_rating_system]Elo”>Elo rating system - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>Just straight math.</p>
<p>[Elo</a> rating system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elo_rating_system]Elo”>Elo rating system - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>Isn’t that what’s used to rate chess players?</p>
<p>i think the sample for this is only based on members on their website.</p>
<p>its a really interetesting idea, but not fully realized.</p>
<p>besides that, their chancing thing seems fairly accurate and is at least a pretty novel thing to look at. kind nice to know i didn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of getting into my dream school after all.</p>
<p>If you read the methodlogy page, they are taking the published numbers from each college. </p>
<p>FRom their site:</p>
<p>The college admissions landscape is littered with college rankings. In 1983, US News first ranked American universities. Since then, rankings have been a fixture of the college world: they are produced by various businesses (US News, Princeton Review, Forbes, Atlantic Monthly), and heeded by students and colleges alike. To gain advantage, some universities have been alleged to manipulate their own rankings. And, while some of the factors used in the rankings are justifiable (alumni giving rate), some seem to be arbitrary (peer assessment surveys asking other colleges about your colleges faculty dedication to teaching). Each year, the methodology changes slightly, producing a slightly different list. In the end, the factors that are used to come up with the rankings seem arbitrary; the occasional change in the weighting of each factor, capricious. There is a need for a new approach.</p>
<p>more:
We have implemented the MyChances College Rankings based on revealed student preference. In this system, the college admissions process is treated like a chess tournament. The colleges play matches (which occur when 2 colleges admit the same student). In each match, there is a winner (the college that the student ends up attending) and a loser. The winner gains points; the loser forfeits them. When a high-ranked school beats a low ranked school, the high-ranked school gains few points, and the low-ranked school loses few points. If a low-ranked school beats a high-ranked opponent, it gains more points than if it beat an equally-matched opponent. After playing many games, the colleges that students prefer rise naturally to the top of the rankings.</p>
<p>so…?</p>
<p>also, UF just jumped to #30 for some reason.</p>
<p>The problem with their method is that it doesn’t take some important factors into account, most notably finance. For example, I chose UF over WUStL because WashU gave me zero aid and UF would’ve been essentially free because of Bright Futures(before it got nuked). Do I think WUStL is a better school than UF? No. Did I prefer UF over WUStL? No.</p>
<h1>30 is over history</h1>
<h1>19 is just 2009 ranking.</h1>
<p>As to “so?”
It’s just another way to look school ranking. I do believe that US News is flawed, too much subjective input. </p>
<p>No Ranking system will be perfect.</p>
<p>@antsofthesky, it does take into account finance. financial aid is a consideration when students choose one school over the other. usually greater financial aid is a good thing, thus making the school ‘better’. your looking for a specific ranking of academics, or some other specific criteria. this ranking purposefully makes absolutely no effort to rank any specific criteria like that. for many people, financial aid is a greater consideration than academic strength. for others, partying is. distance from home. housing. it takes into consideration a wide range of factors in an unknown proportion that may or may not be relevant to your interests.</p>
<p>i think this idea is really great. i just think the sample it uses to determine rankings makes it irrelevant. it only considers match-ups between schools chosen by people who use that website. their current data on UF only considers about 1000 applicants–of which the vast majority has updated their information saying whether they were accepted or rejects. the sample size that they use to determine the ranking only has about 200 students in it.</p>
<p>A lot of “intangibles” are not taken into account as well (prestige, etc.) that USNews does consider…but still USNews is, in my opinion, way too subjective. I would say that such a high ranking also has to do with the yield rate. I thought a thread on here said the rate was around 50%, not 63.4%</p>
<p>prestige is taken into account.</p>
<p>any factor taken into account by students choosing between the schools is a factor. one of the reasons why i chose UF over UCF was prestige. the reason why UF ranks above more prestigious schools is because, in the opinion of those included in the survey on which the rankings are based, it makes up for less prestige with other factors like financial aid.</p>
<p>this ranking DOES NOT directly take into consideration school stats. yield rate has almost nothing to do with its ranking, and the website its self discredits yield as a criteria for ranking.</p>
<p>I think the system has merit…you just have to understand the limitations. I believe it just quantifies who wins the cross-admit game…in effect, it ranks schools based upon how students “vote” by deciding where to go given all their options. The main issue I see with it is that it assumes people on the website that are submitting data are being truthful. The system could be gamed by making up user accounts and falsifying data. There could be safe-guards aganist this, but I’m not sure how reliable the data is.</p>
<p>Still, it shows how desireable UF is for most applicants…but we already knew that based on yield rates.</p>
<p>If you dig a little bit, the site allows cross-admit comparisons between schools. It is interesting that students pick UF 86% of the time vs. 14% for FSU. A confidence interval is provided, so it appears that the statistical confidence is at least defined… gaming of the system notwithstanding.</p>
<p>Worth every penny you pay for it.</p>
<p>You may not like those results, p2n, but at least you can take solace that FSU wins the cross-admit battle with UCF by about the same percentage!</p>
<p>FSU: 76%
UCF: 24%</p>
<p>UF: 82%
UCF: 18%</p>
<p>FSU: 40%
USF: 50%</p>
<p>UF: 78%
USF: 22%</p>
<p>FSU: 0%
Harvard: 0%</p>
<p>UF: 43%
Harvard: 57%</p>
<p>What does a 0% for each school on a head-to-head mean? Means no one recorded their selection who got admitted to both schools?</p>
<p>yeah.</p>
<p>remember guys:
THIS RANKING ONLY TAKES INTO CONSIDERATION THOSE WHO HAVE REGISTERED ON THEIR WEBSITE AND FILLED OUT THE APPROPRIATE INFORMATION CORRECTLY. THE SAMPLE IS NEITHER REPRESENTATIVE, RANDOM, OR SIZABLE.</p>
<p>^That’s a wise thing to post. ;)</p>
<p>Wise posts usually don’t require caps lock in addition and increased font.</p>
<p>just fyi it was shift. i’ve never felt comfortable typing in caps without my pinky on shift. it feels too naked. hopefully thats okay with you.</p>