A reminder

That rankings aren't everything:

http://www.cooley.edu/rankings/NYTstory.htm

One this this article fails to mention in the importance of "reputation" scores in ranking applicants. I point this out because these have a high correlation to US News rankings and are directly related to the market for jobs after graduation.

Once again people, stop complaining about the rankings. The system is what it is: Students care too much about 1 publication, Deans' jobs are based on getting good students, Deans must care about rankings. Blame the students, not the publication or the Deans. On a related note, if you want to fix the system the answer isn't in the methodology its in the idea of a "ranking." List schools in terms of the natural cutoffs (two three, next three, another chunk, the rest of the top 14, the semi nationals, the rest of the T25, etc.

Yes I realized I said scrap the rankings in favor of something largely related to rankings, but it makes sense if you think about the effect droping numbers and sticking to ranks would have. Nobody refers to divisions of T3 schools, they are just "T3."