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Message: [QUOTE="Nostical, post: 4744150, member: 749"] I get it, but it doesn’t matter. The rankings come from a well recognized and highly respected source (The WSJ). Had they come from The New York Post, different story. Had the top five schools on the list been perceived as head scratching surprises, such as Brandeis, Northeastern, Wisconsin, Bucknell and Florida, UConn would have been a lot quieter about our 46 ranking. Those schools would have immediately called into question all of these rankings. But when this rankings list begins with the very schools normally associated with any list of “top schools” (Princeton, MIT, Yale, Stanford, Columbia, Harvard, Penn, Amherst) …, there’s an automatic credibility factor associated with the rest of the rankings. So don’t apologize for our 46 being ranked above Rice—or feel you have to defend it. That’s where we sit on this scale. Will lower ranked schools try and rationalize their standing by criticizing the criteria, methodology and purpose of the WSJ rankings? Of course, but that’s what’s expected of them. Walk proudly UConn. [/QUOTE]