You can’t analyze data generated by a mishmash of badly-described methodologies, and call it truth.
Garbage in, garbage out.
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The only rank that mattered to my kids was the one they created themselves amongst the schools we considered and visited. Neither looked at any published rankings. They looked at what was good about each school for themselves.
Can I create my own list of rankings?
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Why not? Everyone does. 
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Lindagaf’s list of best colleges:
- Bates College
- Binghamton University
That’s it. 
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Thumper’s rankings.
- Santa Clara University
- Boston University
- Ohio University
- University of Hartford
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From what I can tell, it’s just an average of the rankings and then sorted in ascending order, nothing nefarious. So, with those rankings both number 9’s end up with the 9th highest average rank. (Which actually turns out to be 15 and change). It just means everybody else’s individual rankings are worse.
Yes, this is a relative rank, so that just means they ranked better than all the schools below it. Notice that MIT is #1 overall even though they did not get exactly #1 on every ranking; MIT just did better than every other school if you take their average rank. And there was a tie between Columbia and Northwestern for #9 because their average rank across all 13 publications was the exact same to the decimal point. The same thing happened for Duke and Yale for #5: their average ranking was exactly a tie if you calculate the numbers.
This is correct! I just took the average rank across all 13 publications, there wasn’t any subjectivity in the final order.
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