<p>Alexandre, I think UM should actually start tweaking those numbers so some of these people can shut up. I never really cared about US News rankings because I lived in 6 different countries and I knew the kind of amazing international exposure UM had around the world (yes even more than Johns Hopkins, Emory, Notre Dame, and some of those private schools ranked ahead of UM in the US news) but I am kinda getting annoyed at all these people (I am not talking about this message board) giving me crap for how UM is only ranked 25th best in US. So I personally think UM should tweak some of those numbers to place in the top 15, and why not? as horrible the US News ranking is, lots of people, sadly, judge the universities based on these stupid rankings so it will only make UM look more prestigious to the uninformed crowd.</p>