<p>lol funny. Does anyone actually read USNWR except for the college rankings? lol guess its their thing</p>
<p>i really think RESEARCH should be a component added into USNWR Research Universities rankings. I mean…what is the point of ranking RESEARCH universities if RESEARCH isn’t even a component?</p>
<p>On one of the law school discussion forums, an applicant went to Grand Central Station at midnight to get a copy of the Grad School edition and posted the rankings for everyone. </p>
<p>Once you’re below a certain tier, it’s hard to imagine how any of this makes much of a difference. Having a BBall team in the sweet 16 is probably a bigger boost to applications than making it into the T50 in US News and World Report.</p>
<p>It’s all for the $$$$</p>
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<p>Having a faculty-oriented perspective, the university did not want its professors bogged down in remedial education, but rather wanted to attract serious, prepared students who could genuinely participate in the discovery of *new knowledge<a href=“AKA%20participation%20in%20research!”>/I</a></p>
<p>Johns Hopkins has a higher PA score than Duke… Hopkins’ PA score was among the top 10 and was tied with Cornell, Chicago, and Columbia (3 C’s lol) with a 4.7 back when I applied to colleges in 2007.</p>
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Yes, agreed, it is marketing, but it is tacky marketing. Not sure that is their goal, since enough people already have issue with the validity (for lack of a better word) of their ratings. Hard to believe they would want to further tarnish their image…</p>
<p>jym- you should be correct, but unfortunately people will be extremely flexible with their journalistic integrity when their boss tells them to do it b/c will make the company more $. Just look at the people on Fox News or the leaders of Lehman, Wachovia, Citi, Merril Lynch. Principles and common sense take a back seat to profit.</p>
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^^^^ Didn’t work too well for Lehman Bros, swish. We lost a bundle in that stock when it folded :(</p>
<p>As for advertising, sometimes negative attention is better than no attention at all. But IMO, the countdown clock on the USNews site is, as monstor said above, kinda obnoxious.</p>
<p>Is there any chance Stanford could break into the top three and move above Princeton based mainly on admit rate?</p>
<p>Or is having HYP at the top a requirement to give the rankings “credibility”?</p>