<p>How are they in the top 50?</p>
<p>It did it by investing its money with Bernie Madoff of course.</p>
<p>east coast bias</p>
<p>^^ or maybe it’s just a good school?
Honestly, if there were east coast bias, it wouldn’t explain why schools like northwestern, Stanford, Caltech, WashU and UChicago continually rank highly in US News.</p>
<p>You mean while schools like Arizona, Arizona State, Oregon, Oregon State and New Mexico get perpetually under-ranked?</p>
<p>^^ and how are you so certain that they are underranked? If anything, you could claim a “private school” bias, but not a regional bias. </p>
<p>In terms of why there are more east-coast schools in the top 50 or top 100, it is simply because there are more schools concentrated in this region than elsewhere and for obvious reasons.</p>
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Oh yeah, right there in the methodology: “10% of ranking - How many miles is the college from Massachusetts?”</p>