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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I applied to college in 1977-78 and lived in CA.  And Stanford was as I described it.  So USNWR, which had zero credibility at that point, puts it at number 1 in 1983 (which generates interest/controversy/attention that ranking HY or P #1 would not have produced) and the rest is history.  This is not a persuasive argument that change at the top happens slowly.

It's a story about fads and communications networks (and major investments or disinvestment) changing the visibility/popular perception of educational institutions that have long histories, but whose constituencies are continually evolving.  
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Disagree. It's not about fads when it came to Stanfird or MIT. Remember Brown in the 80s ? Or Columbia a few decades before that? Now these were fads. Stanford and MIT rose because there was an actual shift towards tech and engineering not because UsNews out it at #1.  I know for sure that during the 1980s Stanford was already starting to compete with HYP. By the early 1990s it was considered part of the  that top tier. [/quote]

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