Brilliant .. And always in awe of Malcolm's story telling!

It's time to dethrone the Ivy Colleges.

The hard working American is sick of the privileged prizing themselves; their enviable compensation is their prize

I am quoting this in my first academic paper in 30 years.

"George Santos Prize" should be a National event. Guy Fawkes statue

... brutal ... truth hurts

Follow-up! Follow-up! Follow-up! (To the “tune” of “Lock her up!” 😂)

Oh God, LOVED this🎉🎉🎉

Brilliant. Hilariously brilliant.

Don’t know if you read the comments but…I was getting ready to listen to my morning briefing on current events by Beau of the fifth column when a Pushkin ad starts playing. Normally I skip the ad after the required five seconds, but today I got sucked right in and listened to most of the story, clicked the link, found the link back to your channel here and subscribed. So there you go.

Columbia would be a cool place to go to school though. Right in Manhattan. Ride the subway and such.

Do we discuss the how people pay to get into these colleges~?

At 77, am I your oldest groupie fan? I wish I could be 20 and learning from you Malcolm Gladwell!! Major Kudos! I'm chuckling away...😂

@bobgeorge740

11 ай бұрын

I'm also a 77 and Malcolm speaks to my condition. I was one of the top ten process benchmarking experts in the world 20 years ago. Malcolm's description of the quality of our higher education providers then, that showed that Penn State did a very good job of educating students, was one of the most brilliant benchmarking analyseses I've come across. . My daughter went to both Penn State and Columbia and her liscence plate in the producer's parking lot at Warner Bros. is PSU - 94. But she loved her MFA from Columbia. Please Malcolm, keep leading. Hold power to being accountable. It is all about dxdt, how fast we are getting better.

@sandramoorewilliams5384

11 ай бұрын

Not quite, but of the same class model. I'm 79 and laughing along with you.

There is so much concern given to college rankings but it depends on the students more!

@mikemondano3624

11 ай бұрын

That's a quaint idea. You're still thinking that people go to college to learn. People go to college to impress future employers and which college matters. You want one with a good reputation that gives easy A's so you won't need to transfer to one that sells better grades.

Class of 86. Learned a lot. Reluctant to donate now that I have this excuse. Abandon the rankings! What an idea.

@litsci1877

11 ай бұрын

Save your money or give it directly to a kid. Seriously. If you want depressing go visit the Development office without an appointment, say you're just waiting for your wife, and listen to the ambient conversation.

@naftalibendavid

11 ай бұрын

@@litsci1877 oh man! I bet that’s an eye opener.

@litsci1877

11 ай бұрын

I haven't figured out which are worse, the totally amoral and seriously brainy types the top-tier schools hire or the small-time crooks like you see at mine. Certainly there's comedy value in the latter but only till you remember it's real and there are real credulous kids and parents involved, real bent fac & staff who're getting paid bupkes, a real country needing lots of actually well-educated young people, etc.

That higher education has become more and more a tournament disgusts me. I always like to keep in mind a story I heard from a fellow who goes through resumes of engineering graduates for an auto company. He said he had two stacks of resumes that are built after brief interviews of the graduates. To select which stack a resume ends up on, he asks the graduate one question: "Why did you become an engineer?" The answer the graduate gives determines which stack his resume ends up on, the short stack or the tall one.

@mikemondano3624

11 ай бұрын

I'd give them a piece of wire, a battery, and a bulb. Multiple, random students emerging from a Harvard engineering graduation couldn't make the bulb light up. One young man was disgusted by the task, lit the bulb instantly, and walked away before they could speak with him. I'd hire him.

Savage!

Don't stop now.

What about all universities and especially the law schools. I wonder where the law schools rank on fudging and lying.That would explain a lot of the legislators and their laws.

You should look Mike Spivey up. He did much the same thing with the US News law school rankings. Figured out how they worked, helped his employer climb the rankings, and then started a consultancy to sell his services. This isn’t a new story.

@fatfredthe28th

11 ай бұрын

Not new, but not as well known as it should be either.

Santos went to Columbia in case you didn't know...

"Colombia started in these rankings at 18th, then began a steady, dramatic climb past Cornell, Washington U, Rice, Vanderbilt, Brown, Dartmouth, Northwestern, Duke, Caltech, Penn, Johns Hopkins, University of Chicago, Yale, Stanford. In the past five years alone, they've gone from fifth to third to second, shooting like a shiny asteroid past their glittering peers. I'm a runner... In the Running World, the tell for whether someone is doping is an unexpected improvement. You know, when the 27-year-old miler suddenly lops three seconds off their personal best, you say, 'Aha! A sudden improvement ... out of context improvement, oh my."

What does this mean for the reliability of the US News rankings? If no one validates the data, how likely is it that some other schools are tweaking their numbers?

@jimmyolsenblues

11 ай бұрын

Voice is Bernie. Rip. He has since passed. Bernad mcguirk

@litsci1877

11 ай бұрын

They're worthless. Everyone is trying to game the numbers. Many are succeeding because it's true, there are no state cops along that stretch of highway. If you want a reminder of why that's bad when competition for money and power are at stake, watch the last quarter of The Big Short.

The provost from Columbia should go to jail!

Columbia: “Everyone treated at our hospital is a student.” Parents: “Junior, you’re gonna get an Ivy League education. I’m signing you up for some surgeries.”

Why blame poor Pushkin? Just the happy sound of P’s? This is the GLADWELL prize..

Couldn’t Slippery Rock Teachers become #1 by changing its numbers.

Gladwell clearly had too much fun doing this podcast.

George Santos: “Columbia’s ranking went up while I was studying there. I graduated at the top of my class.”

Malcolm, why am I seeing Kirk Cameron hate ads on your content? Can’t you control who advertises on the back of your work?

Memorial~? He is still alive. And why didn't Trump get the first one~? He went to Wharton after all.

Malcolm, Malcolm,…….after you have slept on this episode, don’t you think that you are ….getting bent out of shape……over something that’s really just a ripple…..yes your report has produced a wave ..but it’s only a ripple…I say this because once, long ago in Tokyo I was a privileged to be a lecturer at Huron University which was accredited in the USA, owned by a former President Temple Univ. Tokyo…That experience was far far more egregious than this muddying of the US News waters by Columbia…….however, it must be said that the. Parents of the students wanted to believe so sincerely that their child was a probable diamond hidden to other institutions by the murk of entrance English test scores, except the business department staff and the president of Huron.

@litsci1877

11 ай бұрын

Have you lost your mind? Do you understand how many children make serious life and financial decisions, and how many parents bankrupt themselves, because of the numbers in USNWR? Because what the hell else are they supposed to go on if they want to understand whether a school's any good?They're not academics. Academia is such a ridiculously *and intentionally* opaque culture that I've had a volunteer sideline in making it clear *to current first-generation students* what the hell is going on around them so they don't wind up spending tens of thousands they don't had because they made a mistake they couldn't have seen coming. Jesus Christ. Wake up.

It is such a pleasure to listen to Malcolm tear into a subject.

@mikemondano3624

11 ай бұрын

Yes, he's interesting. But he sometimes plays loose with the facts and goes down a conservative rabbit hole.

I hate clickbaits.

In America you can be however you want to be. Santos told the people what they wanted to dream. Politics is a lie. George is a legend.