<p>Dean J - thanks for jumping in. I often wonder about a school’s ability to manipulate the rankings. Although my opinion only, two schools that come to mind are Washington University in St. Louis and Emory. While I have not done a detailed search, I concur with the relatively low peer assessments for these two schools compared to their overall ranking by USNWR. It sure seems like those schools have mastered a way to be ranked much higher than at least their peer assessment (a factor I really like to look at) would justify.</p>