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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why is Stanford not ranked top 5?[/quote]

Because Stanford lags behind the schools ahead for the faculty resources and alumni giving component.

Both of these are east-coast/other region favoring, given alumni traditions for donating funds and the cost of leaving penalty against California schools for faculty salaries.

Add +1 to +3 for most California schools and you'll have a more accurate ranking. [/quote]

USNWR doesn't really matter to Stanford.  Regardless of what USNWR says, Stanford is at top level in prestige with Harvard (and MIT in tech).[/quote]

Not that it would happen but they’d sure care if they started to really tank. As silly as it all is the perception of excellence matters to a whole lot of people. [/quote]

I think the USNWR reputation would go before Stanford.  While Princeton is a great school and has been top ranked for 8 years or so, I don't know of anyone who really thinks it has overtaken Harvard at the pinnacle of the Ivy League.  I'm sure cross-admit choices would show that.[/quote]

Agreed.  As far as what impresses the average person on the street (which really what people who care about rankings care about), Harvard is #1 and it will take a seismic shift to shake that.  Dropping the H bomb.

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The main USNews rankings are undergraduate focused. Princeton undergrad is generally seen as top-notch. Harvard has more graduate school prestige.[/quote]

They say it is undergraduate focused, and I'm sure Princeton is a fine undergraduate institution, but USNWR seems more like an overall assessment to me.  The resources they include can be applicable to graduate education, research, medical, none of which are directly related to undergraduates.  There is a separate ranking for teaching, but that doesn't apply to the main ranking.  [/quote]

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