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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It seems to me that the US News rankings does not always align itself with what most people would consider the top schools to be, based on general prestige.  [b]An example is that Berkeley and Emory are both tied at 21.  I would bet that most of the population is a lot more familiar with Berkeley and that it carries a bigger wow factor among the general population than Emory.[/b]  How much correlation do you think the rankings have with overall name recognition and prestige that the colleges carry with the overall population?[/quote]

You had to dig all the way down to No. 21 before you could find an apparent disconnect?[/quote]

No there were others, starting with Harvard being listed as #2, but I didn't think it was necessary to list each disconnect, I just listed the first one that popped into my mind. [/quote]

The real disconnect is that HYPSM are not the top 5. The top 10 as a group makes sense,  the order within it is absurd though. [/quote]

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