While they are at it, they should also investigate UC's figures of percentage of incoming class in the top 10% for the undergrad rankings. UC Davis reports 95 percent, UCSB 96, and UC Irvine 96. By comparison Harvard reports 95 percent, Stanford 91 and Vanderbilt 80. (I am quoting harvardgator in this post:
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/...8-post252.html Evidently, the figures are all estimates that UC Administrators make and are not based on hard data. Clearly they are rounding up significantly.