The list of questions families have is long. The U.S. News rankings answer very few.
What do applicants and families need to know about colleges and universities that a meaningful, well-tended, and relatively transparent system might try to evaluate for them? It might be best to start with an observation that Daniel Chambliss and Christopher Takacs make in their study: The two most important determinants of student satisfaction with the outcomes of a college education are whether the student made at least one friend relatively quickly after starting school and whether at some...
What’s it like to be a student at this institution? Are students happy or unhappy, on average? Are some kinds of students happier or unhappier in relative measure? What do students do during the week and on the weekend? How much is there a match between the kind of person I think I am at 17 and the kind of people the students are? Is there a single “culture” or many “subcultures”?
Can I study the things I think I want to study? Are there lots of curricular choices available so that if I change my mind about what interests me, I have lots of options? If not, is there a coherent alternative vision about why the institution and the curriculum are the size that they are? Are there a lot of faculty members in the areas that interest me now? What about in areas that I don’t even know about that might become interesting to me later? Are the faculty available, inspiring, and...
What’s the average financial award? How many students are receiving some form of discount? How deep are the discounts, and where’s the income cutoff for discount eligibility?
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