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<p>Actually a drop of 30 points would have led ot a much lower ranking than that, since there is usually less that a point difference between schools (100 point scale, around 200 schools that get ranked in the Liberal Arts Colleges category).</p>
<p>But this was actually rather easy to resolve, I just had to Google “Iona college ranking 2012” (which quickly showed that Iona is indeed unranked) and the blog posting of the head man at USNWR for rankings said it all</p>
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<a href=“http://www.usnews.com/education/blogs/college-rankings-blog/2012/04/27/update-to-iona-colleges-2012-best-colleges-ranking[/url]”>http://www.usnews.com/education/blogs/college-rankings-blog/2012/04/27/update-to-iona-colleges-2012-best-colleges-ranking</a></p>
<p>So no calculations at all, therefore no points, no place, no nothing. RamRay just totally misstated it no matter which way it could have been interpreted, when he added the statement “…a drop of 30 points!” That turned out to be complete nonsense. As I knew it had to be.</p>