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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]USNWR rankings are like saying: rank the cities of the world in terms of their overall awesomeness. Rank all foods from best to worst. It’s inherently insane.

Is Harvard “better” than the University of Phoenix? Yes. Is Williams better than Liberty? Yes. But is Harvard “better” than Stanford, is Williams “better” than Amherst? It’s ridiculous.

Every school in the top hundred is a terrific school. Every school has strengths and weaknesses, and pros and cons for particular kids (urban/rural, small/large, great STEM/great humanities, more/less student diversity, etc). USNWR rankings exist to keep an otherwise failed company alive and to make all the rest of us crazy.[/quote]

I don’t disagree but I also think number 1 is better than number 30. But at some granularity is does get absurd. Just like college football polls. [/quote]

I think there are a couple of clearer tiers, then it gets murkier.  Top tier in my mind is Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, MIT, Caltech.  Second tier is Columbia, Penn, Duke, Brown, Dartmouth, Chicago (I know that will cause some resentment here for not being in top tier).  Below that, not as clear, and the differences between schools 10 or more spots away are not as significant as it is at the top (like Princeton vs. Johns Hopkins).  [/quote]

I would say this matches my perception, too. Those schools go by that order in my mind for their prestige, fair or not.

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