im_blue,
People who took the survey were not actual cross-admits. Please read the original study. There's also a nice discussion in the following thread:
New "Revealed Preference" Ranking Released
One of them pointed out the east coast bias:
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They surveyed just 3000 students and only students from a relative handful of "feeder" high schools with large numbers of students getting accepted to the "top" schools. The very nature of the sample, because it over-represents wealthy, northeastern prep and suburban high schools, is going to produce the same-old results. The methodology penalizes schools outside of the northeast, public universities, and any school that is not "old-money".
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