This is the time of year when college rankings proliferate to capture the attention of a new crop of high-school seniors searching for the right campus. In recent months, I’ve written about two fairly new entrants to the rankings game that are worth checking out for their unique methodology, Money magazine and LinkedIn. Now another set of rankings has arrived this month that approaches the question of where to go to college based on the choices real students make: which institutions do students pick when they have been accepted to more than one institution? These rankings come from Parchment, which processes transcripts for high-school students applying to college. It analyzed more than 150,000 admissions acceptances that some 86,000 seniors from the Class of 2015 received from 700 colleges and universities. The company then assigned points to institutions based on the decisions students made when they had a choice among multiple colleges.

September 23, 2015 ・ From The Washington Post