US News rankings are meaningless-from mathematics student.

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<p><a href=“https://cs.stanford.edu/education/masters/prospective-students/faq[/url]”>https://cs.stanford.edu/education/masters/prospective-students/faq&lt;/a&gt; indicates that it may happen if there is a shortage of PhD students available to take TA/GSI positions.</p>