Milkmagn and corruptbargain,
It's obvious none of you read the paper. You are not alone on this however as it seems like 99% of the people who posted that page from NYT before never read the original paper either! Apparently the NYT person misinterpreted the data and people just blindly followed! By the way, since when what high school seniors think is authoritative? They haven't even gone to colleges and you are using their opinion to show which school is better or worse? I hope when you are in college, you don't use the opinion of high schoolers to prove your point.
At least someone that went to Princeton took the time to read the source and refuted it:
UCB vs Northwestern vs Cornell vs UPenn vs Brown