All true…although doing comparisons of the same school for different years can be interesting for the non-merit colleges. There is information you can take away from e.g. the fact that Harvard was in the 300s/400s every year from 1989-2014, but now is only 183. (I have a couple theories.) Or just oddities: How did Virginia Tech, UConn, UMass, Cal Poly-SLO, UC-Davis, and UC-Irvine have fewer than 10 NMS last year — combined? (I don’t have an answer for that one.)
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