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[quote=Anonymous]I went to college over 30 years ago and UPenn was absolutely a sought after school.  Definitely more sought after than Cornell, Dartmouth and Columbia (which i chose not to apply to, although i did apply to Penn) and the US News rankings didn't exist or no one cared.  I had certainly never heard of them.

The same is true when I applied to law schools almost 30 years ago.  I went to NYU, and chose it over Columbia, and it absolutely had a stellar relationship back then.  Again if the rankings existed, I had never heard of them.  And NYU undergraduate had pretty much the same reputation back in my day as it does now, exactly the same the more i think about it.

This business of Stanford being meh 20 years ago is the most laughable thing you wrote.  I KNOW how competitive it was.  Its always been seen as the west coast equivalent of the ivies.

You just don't know what you are talking about.  There has been no upending of schools.  There have been quite a few whose reputations have improved but thats not because of the rankings, thats because the ivies have gotten so competitive and its gotten so hard to get in that students who would have gone to an ivy in previous generations are now going to other schools.  The rankings didn't do this.  And the schools that were considered the most competitive back in my day, still are.

The rankings don't have superpowers.  You can choose to pay attention to them if you want, but they really haven't been responsible for what you claim they are.[/quote]

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