<p>Sam Lee: What? Job interviewers can't be football fans? Also, being in the top 10% of the pre-med majors at Nebraska would be so much better than the bottom 50% at JHU.</p>
<p>Any ranking whether by USNWR or by the general public has severe problems. I find it interesting that we are ranking the rankings. USNWR is a much better way to rank colleges than just prestige? (Actually, that is what USNWR said when they came out in the 80's.) You seem to have no problem in drawing a huge divide between NU (USNWR=12) and Notre Dame (USNWR=18).</p>
<p>Harvard is well known for complaints about undergrad classes being taught by TA's instead of full professors. Still, the prestige of Harvard among the dumb public would make it hard for somebody to turn Harvard down for a college that is a better personal fit. The percent of students at JHU saying the behavior of classmates is cutthroat is 45.9% compared to 2.3% at Stanford and 0.3% at Brown. An individual might be better off at Nebraska than JHU. (The other high scorers were UChicago:20.5%, UPenn:20.4%, Cornell:20.1%, MIT:11.9% and Harvard:11.7%....NU was 5.9%.)</p>