<p>i dont have undergrad rankings from 10-15 years ago, but i DO have rankings from 2000 (my 8th grade english teacher gave us the usnwr rankings hoping we’d strive for one of those colleges as we turned toward high school haha)</p>
<p>2000 USNWR Best Colleges
- Cal Tech
- Harvard
- MIT
- Princeton, Yale
- Stanford
- Duke, Johns Hopkins, Pennsylvania
- Columbia
- Cornell, Dartmouth
- Chicago
- Brown, Northwestern, Rice
- Washington U.
- Emory
- Notre Dame
- UC Berkeley, Vanderbilt
- Virginia
- Carnegie Mellon, Georgetown
- UCLA, Michigan
- UNC
- Wake Forest
- William & Mary, Tufts
- Brandeis
- UCSD, Rochester
- Case Western, Lehigh, NYU, Illinois, Wisconsin
- Boston College
- Georgia Tech, Penn State
- UC Davis, USC
- Tulane, UCSB, Texas, Washington, Yeshiva
- UC Irvine, Florida</p>
<p>as you can see, there is some drastic changes like caltech’s fall from #1 and usc’s jump from 42 to 30</p>