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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This debate was basically ended through that popular Reddit post where someone took all the popular ranking systems and averaged each top school's ranks to find the best overall schools: https://www.reddit.com/r/ApplyingToCollege/comments/xc0v5x/the_2023_supreme_t75_college_ranking_aggregating/

My breakdown would be:
1A) MIT, Stanford, Princeton, Harvard, Duke, Yale
1B) Penn, Caltech, Columbia, Northwestern

2A) Vanderbilt, Rice, Dartmouth, Brown, UChicago, Cornell, Williams, Amherst, Pomona
2B) UMich, Johns Hopkins, WashU, Notre Dame, Georgetown, UCLA, Berkeley, Swarthmore, Bowdoin, Claremont McKenna

3A) UVA, UNC, CMU, UF, Emory, USC, Georgia Tech, Wellesley, Barnard, Carleton, Middlebury
3B) UCSD, BC, UT Austin, W&M, UIUC, W&L, Vassar, Davidson, Hamilton, Haverford[/quote]

Interesting compilation, but I would prefer to see such a compilation based on just US News, WSJ/THE, & Forbes. I do not give much credence to either Niche or the Washington Monthly rankings.[/quote]

Washington Monthly is incredibly underrated and in my opinion deserves to be in the 5 major rankings along with US News, WSJ/THE, Forbes, and Niche, but I understand it might not fit the criteria you care most about. If you take the average rankings of just US News, WSJ/THE, and Forbes, you get:

1. MIT
2. Stanford
3. Princeton
4. Yale
5. Harvard (Forbes put Harvard at 15 otherwise it would obviously be higher)
6. Duke
7. Penn
8. Northwestern
9. Johns Hopkins
10. Brown
11. Columbia (tie)
11. Dartmouth (tie)
13. UChicago
14. Vanderbilt
15. Cornell
16. Rice
17. UCLA
18. Berkeley
19. WashU
20. Caltech (Forbes put it at 45, otherwise it would obviously be higher)[/quote]

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