<p>I think this is very accurate rankings for the year. Even being at Penn, I have no problem with having MIT/Cal Tech/Stanford above us. I never thought we should have been fourth, anyway.</p>
<p>Penn's score (out of 100) at 7th is only 1 point below the scores for the schools tied at 4th, so stastically, there wasn't a significant change.</p>
<p>With the implementation of the Common App for the class of 2011 and the anecdotal report by Dean Stetson that campus visits are up 15% over last year I think that you will see selectivity increase which will help boost Penn's ranking for next year. In addition, the endowment did well this past fiscal year and now exceeds $5 billion.</p>
<p>well, i guess those sex-deprived techies should get something for your 4 years of abstinence. eh, thank god, we've kept cornell out of the the top ten.</p>
<p>US news's stats are based on data from the class of 2009, in which a lot of schools had substantial increases in application submissions except for Penn. (hence our listed 21% admit rate). This will be self-correcting in next year's US news...only 365 days to go for that one!</p>