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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When you have four ties at number three, two ties at number eight, followed by two more ties at number ten, number twelve, number fourteen and number sixteen ending in four ties at number Twenty two  and the total score difference between number one and number ten is just ten points, [b]you know that this ranking like all other reasons is just nonsensical.[/b] [/quote]

no, but they do need some tie-breaker to sort these out a little better.[/quote]
No, they should switch to a tier system. Did you read the methodology? They have a lot of factors, have a lot of percentile weights, and in the end, they scale the top score to 100, and interpolate the rest of the scores. They are squishing 1803 colleges into a 100 point scale. If they are getting ties, they are probably rounding to one decimal. There is really no difference between an aggregate 99.8 and 99.7 on that type of scale. There probably are meaningful differences in some of the factors, but then the final results depend on how much you decide each factor weighs.

I'd be more interested in seeing a distribution of the scores. There are probably some distinct clumps rather than an even distribution. But of course, USNWR makes $$ off a firm ranking so ...[/quote]

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