<p>@curvyteen
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<p>Here are Chicago’s rankings (incl those before it started to “game” them):</p>
<p>USNews (National) Starting '83
6, 5, 8, 10, 9, 11, 10, 9, 9, 10, 11, 12… tied for 9th in '07
It’s recent “precipitous” rise on USNews is mostly due to their correcting hitherto flawed data. For instance, it used to bunch up several core classes as one class, thereby affecting their average class size, etc.</p>
<p>QS (worldwide), starting '07 (probably before it started “gaming” the rankings, since it was still 9th on USNews at that point in time)
7, 8, 7, 8, 8</p>
<p>ARWU (worldwide), starting '03
11, 10, 9, 8, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9</p>
<p>In the 80s it was top 5 on USNews, in the 90s it was often top 10, and in the early 2000s, it was frequently ranked among the top 10 worldwide. “obscurity for decades”?</p>
<p>@manyloyalties
Duke was established in 1838 and moved to Durham in 1892. UChicago and Stanford were established in 1892 and 1891 respectively, and MIT was established in 1865 but moved to its current campus only in 1916.</p>
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I honestly think these discrepancies arise because the cross-admit data they have between any two schools is paltry. Chicago splits about 45-55 with Princeton and Princeton splits about 75-25 with Duke, yet Duke wins the Chicago cross-admit battles? Granted these statistics do not have to be perfectly transitive, but this a far cry from acceptable incongruity. The overall parchment ranking, with its substantially larger sample size, is far more indicative:</p>
<p>[Parchment</a> Student Choice College Rankings 2013 | Parchment - College admissions predictions.](<a href=“http://www.parchment.com/c/college/college-rankings.php]Parchment”>http://www.parchment.com/c/college/college-rankings.php)</p>
<p>The rankings go HSYMP, UChicago, Brown, Caltech, Amherst… Duke is 12th</p>