<p>hippo has a point. Stanford is clearly outperforming Chicago and Columbia, so why should the latter be ranked higher? US News is a numbers game, and Columbia/Chicago know how to perform well in it. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.</p>
<p>The US News rankings don’t really prove anything, and are more of a bragging point than anything. It’s also used to attract fickle 18-year-olds to the college. For that reason, I’m glad that Chicago is performing well in the rankings. However, I’d like to see Chicago not only beat Stanford in the rankings, but also beat it in actual performance as well. Chicago has been greatly improving in actual performance over the last 5 years, which I’m happy to see, but since we’ve finally achieved #4 in the rankings, I hope the administration starts to focus all its attention on boosting our performance in reality.</p>