It's interesting to read student reflections on how schools appear to outsiders. Overall, the schools seem to be either doing a poor job playing to their strengths or are great job obscuring their weaknesses with nice words. Hopefully some things will be clarified as we look further into what is actually going on in the schools and in the courses. But the lack of consistency in what information they present, and particularly in how they present their concrete achievements, makes it really hard to determine whether or not an individual school works for students, and also what the entire field looks like.
I am surprised at where some of the schools are placed on the spreadsheet and it will be very interesting to see if the spreadsheet changes when we revisit at the end of the semester. It occurs to me that it may not, because it may require a depth of knowing about a school that you can't get without actually talking to people who teach there, reviewing the courses, etc. and generally schools are not open to that. They clearly want to control the message.
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