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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Idiots.

1 Princeton
2 MIT
3 (Tie) Harvard, Stanford
5 Yale
6 UPenn
7 (Tie) CalTech, Duke
9 (Tie) Brown, JHU, Northwestern
12 (Tie) Columbia, Cornell, UChicago
15 (Tie) UCLA, UCB
17 Rice
18 (Tie) Dartmouth, Vanderbilt
20 Notre Dame
21 UMich
22 Georgetown
23 UNC
24 (Tie) CMU, Emory, Virgina, WashU StL
28 UCD, UCSD, UF, USC

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities

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This ranking has now become useless for many families now. Previously a high achieving student could look at this ranking and got a good feel for where similarly academically gifted, well connected, will heeled students were headed. Such a student could get a good feel for academic reputation, class sizes and where students in similar circumstances had the most opportunities for undergrad research.

But catering to such families is considered racist and politically incorrect now, so US News has thrown these parents and students under the bus and opted to focus on Pell Grant students and their needs while abandoning metrics that really matter for the academically gifted student.

That is why many over crowded, financially strapped  public universities that don't primarily focus on academic experience  above all else  have risen in the rankings.

Virtue signaling at it's worst, but it won't help the magazine. They will still become irrelevant very soon because they actually tried to straddle the fence instead of just picking "accessibility" metrics totally and so, will still piss off the folks they are trying to please while also pissing off the folks who actually found their older model useful  previously[/quote]

+1. Well-said[/quote]

Says the nervous rich people.  [/quote]

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