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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Penn State boosters won't be happy.  After last year's bump to #37, PSU is back to #48.

Northeastern University is now on par with BU.

Wake is out of the Top 25. Virginia Tech and GWU slipped back

Notre Dame and Vandy are on par with the Ivy League (Brown)[/quote]

Congrats to schools like Northeastern and the legendary WUSTL.  Nobody games USNews better!

http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/article/2014/08/26/how-northeastern-gamed-the-college-rankings/[/quote]

It's funny that some take so much offense at schools improving the metrics that USNEWS measures.  I get that many object to the specific formulation, but most reasonable people would agree that each of the metrics USNEWS measures pertain in some way to the college experience.  How is that improving the college experience is somehow a bad thing?  IMHO the increasing importance of the USNEWS rankings in the past generation has forced schools to pay attention to things that matter to students (such as class size and facilities) instead of just fund raising and athletics. [/quote]

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