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Podcast: Tests and the Rest: College Admissions Podcast
Episode: WHICH COLLEGE RANKINGS CAN YOU TRUST?
Description: Generations of applicants have turned to the same metrics and authorities time and again to compare institutions of higher education. Should they? Amy and Mike invited professor Jed Macosko to explore which college rankings you can trust. What are five things you will learn in this episode? Why are college rankings so influential? What do traditional college rankings purport to tell us? What do the traditional rankings often tell us instead? Should applicants trust college rankings? How should applicants use rankings to evaluate schools? MEET OUR GUEST Jed Macosko is a Professor of...