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That the USNEWS ranking is a wealthist formulation is undeniable. The top 50 USNWR "BEST" schools list overlaps 70 percent with the list of universities with the largest endowments. The top 50 USNWR list overlaps 70 percent with the list of the 50 universities whose student bodies boast the highest percentage of students from our nation’s top 1% richest families. Given that white families in the US hold 5 to 7 times as much wealth as black and hispanic families, it is not surprising that the top USNEWS scho
Unlike the popular periodicals, we did not assign a priori a percentage weight to the six variables in the SMI formula and add those values together to obtain a score. Instead, the relative weight of any variable is established by testing how much a realistic change in the value of that variable moves a school within a set of rankings derived from real data. Accordingly, the greatest sensitivity for movement in the SMI rankings derives from lowering sticker tuition and increasing the percentage of students
As Stanford historian Walter Scheidel suggests in The Great Leveler , “We need to ask whether great inequality has ever been alleviated without great violence, how more benign influences compare to the power of this Great Leveler, and whether the future is likely to be very different—even if we may not like the answers.” The fact that income and wealth inequality is now driving unrest around the world is no longer in question. [Cf. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/apr/07/global-inequality-tipping-p
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