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Lord of the Rankings

Revisionist History

We've Been Penalizing Us News Rankings, Can You Double Check Their Math?

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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.

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