<p>I have always been critical of US News for its under rating of Georgetown and said that at some point if it continued to under rate Georgetown it would lose its credibility and go out of business. Well today US News announced that it is going all digital and is exiting the news magazine business. While I am sure there are other factors in US News demize (and I know there are), I humbly suggest that rating a school # 23 that is the alma mater to current, future and recent heads of state for four of the one hundred and three of the thirty most populous nations of the world and which is more selective than about ten national universities in front of it made no sense and helped to undermine Us News' most important product which is its college rating franchise.</p>
<p>The magazine is still a good read and I will actually miss it, as much as I was crtical of it in its treatment of Georgetown.</p>
<p>With US News going down along with Liddie Dole, our friends at Duke will be in a state of existential stress.</p>
<p>Never much cared for US news rankings... they have their methodology and I respect that, but I do too think Gtown was under ranked year after year... wish our endowment would pull through...</p>
<p>Well, I'm not from Georgetown...but people always say something like this about their schools. People always think that the ivies have to be in the top 10, and they only allow MIT, Stanford, and Caltech to be ranked in between them. I've seen thread about Duke, UChicago, JHU, WashU, and Northwestern not deserving to be ranked as highly as some of the ivies. I think that is really DUMB.</p>
<p>I agree with you and the schools you mentioned are the best schools in the country, but if you look at the top 25 on US news, there are clearly schools, which I'm not going to name, that shouldn't be there...</p>