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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know many folks keep asserting that it is easy to game the USNews ranking, but the fact is that despite all the gaming,  it is very difficult to make huge changes in your rank under the USNews methodology as you get closer to the top. That is because a good portion of the ranking is based on reputation and these are things the college can't really change dramatically.

In fact beside Harvard, Yale and Princeton only three colleges have broken into the top 3 ranks in the last twenty years of USNews ranking history

Caltech, MIT and Chicago and Chicago is the only school that was not in the top 10 then, that has cracked not only  the top 10 but advanced into the top 5.

The reason the school has advanced is because it already had all the important parts in its favor, it just had to tinker on the edges to get a few things right to see results.

Not many colleges are in a position to do that otherwise you would have seen many more colleges breaking the top 10 on a regular basis. [/quote]

There are only so many colleges with the massive endowment needed to make splashy moves. Also, Chicago isn't the only gamer; NYU and Northeastern have both moved up dozens of slots. If US News wasn't a joke, public U engineering powers like Berkeley Michigan Illinois and GTech would all be top 15. STEM is king.[/quote]

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