Hi HN!
As a result of my frustration with the uselessness of college rankings, I wanted to poke fun at them by creating a satirical, democratic ranking of the college rankings themselves, based on absolutely meaningless criteria (see for yourself: https://ranking-squared.vercel.app/).
As mentioned, the goal is to poke fun at just how useless a ranking that attempts both to be heterogeneous (spanning several factors) and broad in coverage (comparing all kinds of incomparable higher ed institutions) is. Many kids and their parents treat these rankings as the holy grail for where to even apply for college, it's absurd! But more deeply, this is an experiment to witness the human instinct of wanting to rank things, and learning to accept even the least rationale rankings just because they have an associated "nice" ordering.
Create your ranking^2 to order them as you wish, which assigns points to the college rankings and determines what the live ranking on the site is. Check it out and let me know what you think: https://ranking-squared.vercel.app/
Thanks!
