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<li><p>snipersas, as Cue7 explained, I wasn’t taking issue with ranking West Point highly; I was taking issue with ranking West Point and Annapolis very differently. In ranking exercises like this, with lots of apples-and-oranges comparisons, I am not surprised to see some gap between Tweedledum and Tweedledee schools, but 36 places seemed like an awful lot. It would be nice to know what, exactly, the USMA is doing so much better than the USNA. For what it’s worth, the limited number of kids I have known over the past few years who wanted to go to a military academy all preferred the USNA after they did their research.</p></li>
<li><p>phuriku, I had the same reaction as you, but Forbes has a long and quite respectable defense of using RateMyProfessor data on its website.</p></li>
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