Columbia, Duke, or Princeton???

Applying to College
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<p>u.s. news undergraduate engineering rankings (2005):</p>

<ol>
<li>cornell</li>
<li>PRINCETON</li>
<li>DUKE</li>
<li>COLUMBIA</li>
<li>harvard</li>
<li>penn</li>
<li>brown</li>
<li>dartmouth</li>
<li>yale</li>
</ol>

<p>national academy of engineering members (2005):</p>

<p>cornell (21)
PRINCETON (20)
COLUMBIA (17)
harvard (14)
penn (8)
brown (4)
yale (4)
dartmouth (3)
DUKE (3)</p>

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<p>look how different those rankings are</p>

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<p>only for duke. the order of the ivies is essentially identical, with yale edging dartmouth rather than tying it in the second one.</p>