<p>Looks like a fake. Emory and Tufts really high for no reason, all the publics get dinked for no reason, and UCD not in the top 50 while UCSB is 47? Come oooon.</p>
<p>UCI > UCSB and Davis on this one...</p>
<p>Unless this worker at US NEws wants to risk getting Canned, I doubt he would have released confidential information to the friend of a friend who is his son's friend :P</p>
<p>This is prolly a false alarm and I think he is eating some popcorn enjoying the moment :D</p>
<p>You people are sooooooooo pathetic....I do not know what's more pitiful...to be attending one of the schools you are talking about in the rankings of to HOPE to attend one of them... I hope you do grow out of that phase,,,,,</p>
<p>This guy has a post count of 4, all of which have been on this subject. Yea, probably not the best source.</p>
<p>Okay, you guys make this sound like Harry Potter spoilers before the release. </p>
<p>Really, let's not. =p</p>
<p>What a bluff. Not that I care much for the rankings anyway. And that was a nice one, kyledavid80! I remember the HYPE....god!</p>
<p>good one kyledavid about harry potter!</p>
<p>seriously..before ppl jump to conclusions they should question the likelihood of this...the guy has 4 posts which all relate to this SPOILER. clearly he's frontin. are ppl so naive?</p>
<p>"UCI > UCSB and Davis on this one..."</p>
<p>This has been true for a while.</p>
<p>Is this true or are you bluffing?</p>
<p>the guy has four posts. obviously that is at least a bit fishy. i would hedge my bets that its not the real thing. but then again who knows. i just dont see stanford passing yale. and all the publics dropping seems a bit strange to me as well. and usc moving further up to 25 and ucla dropping to 29 seems like a stretch. but i dont know the formula or how it changes from year to year, so anythings possible. i just dont think this is the new ranking.</p>
<p>The guy is definitely making this up... rankings won't change a lot unless USNWR announces that they have a 'new methodology' for doing them...</p>
<p>While I don't think that we can exactly trust these rankings, I think that the conversation that's stemming from it is worthy. </p>
<ul>
<li>It seems a lot of us think Tufts is usually shat on by the rankings, and should move up. </li>
<li>It seems a lot of us think Stanford usually gets canned in favor of HYP. </li>
<li>It seems we all hold the great publics in far higher regard than USNWR does.</li>
<li>It seems we are all somewhat ashamed that we care about these clearly flawed rankings. ;)</li>
</ul>
<p>Eh, but harry potter spoilers turned out to be true.
And i think we had a similar post last year and it turned out to be true too. But lets wait til the 17 and see what happens.</p>
<p>^^ the spoilers I came across weren't true. =p</p>
<p>And I'm 90% sure that these rankings aren't real. If they are, I'm completely writing off USNWR -- not that I had much faith in them anyway.</p>
<p>uyulove, ahh but last year the first leak posted that i read was bogus. and second leaked post, which was completely different, showed a camera phone pic of the page, which proved it was legit. when i see that is when i believe this ranking.</p>
<p>Sounds like it could be real to me. The OP may have only 4 posts under that screen name but he/she seems CC-knowledgeable. Could be a USC fan like proudtrojan who wants to keep anonymous. Too bad for publics if it's true. Not surprised by Stanford though.</p>
<p>"It seems we all hold the great publics in far higher regard than USNWR does."</p>
<p>I think most of them are fine where they are - people are just posting on things they have a vested interest in.</p>
<p>For the record, Stanford's been #3 before ('92), and has even been as high as #2 ('91) and #1 ('83, '85, and '88). And Yale has been #4 before ('00).</p>
<p>Not to say that the OP's ranking is legit (I'd actually bet against that).</p>
<p>The reason Stanford over Yale is surprising is because US News ranks by a total score, in which last year, Yale had 98 points and Stanford had only 94. The kind of jump necessary for Stanford to pass Yale in the rankings would be enough of a swing lower in the rankings for a school to move up 7 or 8 spots. That sort of movement isn't impossible, but it's very uncommon in US News. Similarly the OP's claim that Emory is tied with Brown would be a major swing in numbers (Brown had 85 points to Emory's 80 this year). And Tufts moving ahead of Notre Dame is even less likely (Notre Dame was at 78 points, Tufts at 72 last year). I'm not saying these rankings are false because they are objectively wrong, but because they violate the usual practices of US News (only small movements year to year), and would require some massive changes in stats.</p>