The two most important quality dimensions of a college: graduation rate and yield.

· Bits and Bobs 4/27/26
  • The two most important quality dimensions of a college: graduation rate and yield.
    • Acceptance rate doesn't matter: people apply to tons of colleges they don't actually plan to go to, including lots of stretch options.
    • Yield is "when the time comes to pick one college, do students pick this one?"
    • That requires students to collapse the wave function and pick, and that moment is where insight is generated.
    • Lots of Swarm Sifting Sort algorithms are based on discovering that authentic moment of wavefunction collapse and harvesting the insight.