<p>Also, if the discrepancy comes from USNews’ methodology, I don’t see how any blame could be placed on UChicago. They could’ve submitted the middle 50% of the combined scores (as they report on their own website) but USN would’ve had to use their own methodology for the sake of consistency. I don’t see any evidence that Chicago is fudging the numbers on purpose… It’s just bad math on the part of USNews.</p>
<p>I do agree that the USN methodology seems ridiculous, and I have thus never cared for them really.</p>