@Penn95 @“45 Percenter” I agree that Penn must not be too happy about going from #4 to #9. I think Penn above all desires to ensure its consistent ranking in the top 10, i.e. doesn’t want to be in a position like Dartmouth, which some years is in the top 10 some others it is not."
It is just hard for me to imagine that Penn cares about these differences in USNews rankings.
Imagine that you went back in time, and someone said that over the next 8 or 10 years applications to Penn would rise more than any other Ivy, that its yield would also rise, that Penn grads would have higher salaries than all Ivies except Harvard, and that the Endowment would be over $10 billion, but the school will slip a few places in the US News rankings.
With everything going so well for Penn, I can’t imagine why they would care what US News thinks. They are killing it!