The reed team had to build their own version of the us. News ogarithm from scratch, trying to get as close to it as possible. They use a model that's called a weight in sume model. That means they take about 20 or so different factors about a school and weigh each of those factors based on how important they think the factor is. And then, based on those scores, they rank as schools.
For 30 years, US News & World Report has been using a secret formula to rank the best colleges and universities in the United States. As a public service to our listeners, we hack the algorithm and discover the dirty little secret of the rankings game.
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