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<p>Kinda off topic, but thanks for saying this so elegantly. This is exactly why I, probably un-popularly, think that US News is actually a helpful tool (obviously, not the only tool).</p>
<p>Personally, I don’t think there should be any ranking penalty for schools who falsify information. I think US News’ current system - in which they qualify the school’s rank with an asterisk - is fine. If they started penalizing schools’ position, that would mess with the integrity of the ranking (yes, I realize how that sounds…); USNWR purports to be as objective as possible when it comes to something as inherently subjective as ranking universities, and it would betray that if they “punished” Emory by artificially lowering the school’s position.</p>