<p>“Dude, it’s a problem because illegitimate to some people simply because it still wouldn’t be clear where Universities stack up or who would’ve been tied with whom.”</p>
<p>Can you elaborate on what you mean. How does removing LACs from the ranking change the university rankings in any way? The universities would still be in the same order, their scores would be the same relative to one another, and there would be no difference from simply removing the LACs and renumbering the list.</p>
<p>Rank School Name Overall School Score
1 Stanford University 100.0
2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 99.6
3 Princeton University 99.4
4 Cornell University 99.2
5 California Institute of Technology 99.2
6 United States Military Academy 99.2
7 Rice University 99.0
8 Brown University 98.9
9 Johns Hopkins University 98.9
10 Duke University 98.8
11 University of Notre Dame 98.6
12 Wesleyan University 98.6
13 Middlebury College 98.6
14 Washington and Lee University 98.3
15 Northwestern University 98.3
16 Yale University 98.2
17 Harvard University 98.2
18 United States Naval Academy 98.0
19 University of Chicago 98.0
20 Carnegie Mellon University 97.9
21 Furman University 97.5
22 Lehigh University 97.3
23 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 97.3
24 Vanderbilt University 97.1
25 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 97.1
26 Georgetown University 97.1
27 Brandeis University 97.1
28 Santa Clara University 97.0
29 University of Virginia-Main Campus 97.0
30 Washington University in St Louis 96.8
31 University of Rochester 96.7</p>
<p>I removed all the colleges (I think) and there’s your list. You can look at the number on the right to determine ties if you like, if that’s what you’re talking about.</p>