<p>always ranks highly = present tense, refers to the present.</p>
<p>If I meant what you think I meant, I would have said “has always ranked highly,” no?</p>
<p>Student satisfaction for Chicago students has been very high for at least the past 5 years. Forbes rankings also takes student satisfaction into account, which is partly why Chicago always performs very well in Forbes’ rankings. Also, remember when Princeton Review ranked Chicago the best academic experience like 5 years ago? I don’t think they’d do that if all the students were miserable.</p>
<p>Though this may be a relatively new phenomenon for the old alums, for the youngbloods, this isn’t too much of a new development.</p>