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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So I’ve noticed this thing with college rankings and it appears that the universities we consider to be “top” are top because of specifically business and law school rankings ( medical school is a different). With the exception of a handful of privates like Johns Hopkins or Rice, along with the ivies of Princeton and Brown, most universities derive their reputations primarily from just these two subjects. Take UVA for example. Historically, it is not well known in either stem or humanities quite frankly. Just compare their department rankings in economics or history to the more historically prestigious Michigan and Wisconsin. But, UVA is seen as comparable and even better than those two, based purely on business and law schools. Furthermore, undergraduate selectivity seems to be primarily generated through competitive pre law/pre-mba finance bros. [/quote]

It might be the other way around.

If Princeton started a medical school, a law and a business school tomorrow, I bet they would be top 50 right out of the gate and probably top 20 by the time their first class graduated and top 10 by the time that class had kids old enough to go to those professional schools.[/quote]

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