They are real–real AP story, in real newspaper (in Europe, so already past midnight embargo there), on real web site (posted previously in this thread):</p>
<p>I checked and the academy schools (USNA and USMA) classications did change. However, I don’t know how they can be ranked agaisnt LACs. They are both excellent schools but how do you take into account that they basically have unlimted funds, the acceptance rate is very low and all graduates have guaranteed employment? On top of that they are basically engineering schools.</p>
<p>Not gonna lie – it’s scary how obsessed people have gotten over college rankings. I get sick of hearing people asking each other what school they’re matriculating to, and then hearing them say “That’s ranked Xth, right?”</p>
<p>Guys… The whole ranking is posted on the website. And indeed, the op was telling the truth. (Some people who were accusing of his being a hoax should be ashamed.)</p>
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<li>The initial argument that the top ten rankings wouldn’t be distinct was perfectly valid. It was the OP’s fault that he didn’t separate them.</li>
<li>A new ‘leak’ thread comes out each day. Why anyone should have believed him (at first, at least) is beyond me.</li>
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<p>Don’t accuse the skeptics. Blame the people who believe too easily, as they’re the ones who allow false leak threads to occur.</p>
But isn’t it too early for the Collegeboard.com scores to have been updated to Class of 2011? The schools won’t have their final Class of 2011 enrollment numbers for another month or so.</p>
<p>Princeton University
Harvard University<br>
Yale University<br>
Stanford University<br>
University of Pennsylvania<br>
California Institute of Technology<br>
Massachusetts Institute of Technology<br>
Duke University<br>
Columbia University<br>
University of Chicago<br>
Dartmouth College
Washington University in St. Louis<br>
Cornell University<br>
Brown University
Northwestern University
Johns Hopkins University<br>
Rice University
Emory University
Vanderbilt University
University of Notre Dame
University of California—Berkeley</p>