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And do you know that these rankings are meaningless because US News always puts the same universities on top of the list regardless of their actual results and the rest always fudge their numbers in an attempt to claw themselves up?

It's well known.

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Exactly.  US News is designed so the Ivies always come out on top.  US News knows if the Ivies aren't on top no one will take their rankings seriously.   Ranking these schools like this for real is a fool's errand, but it is fun.  It's like ranking the top 25 NCAA football teams - done for fun and profit.[/quote]

In other words, the metrics measured and compared are selected and weighed to give a result that is consistent with what many would expect based on subjective experience.  That seems like a solid approach to ranking schools.  The value is greater as you move away from the obvious (I,e, HYPS) and get into comparisons of other schools.

The USNEWS rankings are far from meaningless to colleges who go through the effort of collecting and supplying the data to USNEWS.  [/quote]

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