Interview 216: Rob Franek on “Princeton Review Student Surveys”
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- Rob shares his backstory
- Rob shares how his work at Wagner informs his work today
- Rob talks about the survey called “College Hopes and Worries” that Princeton Review has done for 20 consecutive years, and he reveals what the survey results have revealed
- Rob shares what students can learn from the Princeton Review annual surveys, and he shares the number of students who participated in their survey this year
- Rob explains how the rankings that Princeton Review produces are categorically different from other college rankings
- Rob describes how many students complete surveys at each of the campuses where they do the survey
- Rob explains the process of how they do the surveys every year
- Rob goes into more detail about how they identify the schools they select to feature in the book
- Rob shares why they also remove schools from year to year from the book
- Rob talks about a new question they added: what are the most conservative and most liberal schools; he talks about how they determined this list
- Rob talks about another question they asked, who has the best career services, and he shares who got the best survey results on this one Rob talks about who showed up at the top of their survey when asked who has the most Greek life
- Mark asks Rob whether it makes sense for a parent or student to check the results from their survey for multiple years to get access to a few hundred more survey responses
- Mark asks to elaborate on what else they will get if they pick up the Best 390 Colleges book beside the 50 categories where they list the top 25 schools
- Rob talks a little more about some of the other resources Princeton Review has
- We close out with our tradition; Rob goes on the hot seat in our lightning-round