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No, that’s not what I said. I said Duke and UPenn have had precipitous climbs in their rankings, along with Columbia. They were never top 10 schools until very recently.</p>
<p>Most people use USNWR, but I guess you chose the World University ranking because it looks better for Cornell. Anyway, don’t get obsessed with rankings. They matter so little in the real world outside of very broad, general blocks of 50-100 or so universities and liberal arts schools. Even then, you’ll be working with so many competent people from so many different types of schools. That wasn’t the point of my post or the thread.</p>