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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Harvard, Brown, Dartmouth, Berkeley and Cornell have gone down.

Columbia, Hopkins, U Chicago, Stanford, Rice, MIT, CalTech came up.[/quote]

Oh, you! First by assuming "stature" is a thing that matters and can be put on a scale.  Second by starting your list with "Harvard" which literally has been the generic term for the #1 college since it's inception in 1636.

You silly person!  Just stop![/quote]

Brown, Dartmouth, Berkeley down.  Cornell down too (just look at rankings)

UP:  JHU, Stanford and Chicago[/quote]

You silly, silly person!

First, rankings don't matter.  But if they did:

Brown has bounced between 10-17 consistently since the inception of USN.
Dartmouth between 6-12
Berkeley between 13-22
Cornell between 11-16 (with one outlier year at 6)

This is out of 3,000 colleges.

You are, as they used to say in my neighborhood, talking out of your ass.
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Dartmouth has actually fallen out of the top 10, and Cornell is now ranked below Vanderbilt, JHU, etc.[/quote]

This is where you double down on silly.

You think that when minor statistical numbers for 3,000 colleges change which cause a university's ranking to change from 9 to 12 is significant in some way.

That's ridiculous.

Dartmouth has been ranked 9, 10, 11 or 12 every year since 1999.  Just around the time USN startled ranking comprehensively.

You continue to be very very silly.  Stop.[/quote]

Does anyone care about the bottom 2,750? Does a kid considering any school in the top 30 or a company recruiting on campuses at flagships and T20s even acknowledge whatever schools is ranked 2,8750? [/quote]

Snob. Your type is dying out. [/quote]

The PP is right though. The top kids just don’t care about the bottom of the pack, heck even the middle of the pack. They don’t know and don’t care about the 3000 other colleges in the USA. And why should they?[/quote]

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