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Originally Posted by Football Fan
The new rankings come out in September. It will be interesting to see what will happen with some of the flagship universities that are suffering from huge budget deficits.
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Things won't change that much in a year. At this level, the schools primarily trade positions. Harvard, Yale, and Princeton are always in some iteration in the top 3. For the rest of the Top 25, their reputations are set in stone. Reed's ranking fell only because their administration decided not to play the game anymore and stopped sending information.
Much of the criteria, like alumni giving to law or medical schools, has nothing to do with academic performance at the undergraduate level.
There are only 3 state schools in the top 25, and I don't see them going anywhere. States won't cut much funding to their flagships--especially those with international reputations (and students paying full-freight) like UCLA and Berkeley. NY State's not cutting Cornell's piece of the pie for its publicly funded schools.
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