US News Top 25 for 1991-2008

gellino
Wed, 22 Aug 2007 11:09:45 +0000

^Now everyone seems to think that Penn is so impressive. What happened in 1998 that made Penn go from ranking ~ #15 in the previous eight years to suddenly being consistently ranked in the single digits thereafter? Was there a sudden one year class improvement that persisted or some underlying change in ranking methodology? Now, it seems to have become a self-fulfilling prophesy and students who never would have considered Penn in 1997 are suddenly drawn to it in 2007 because of USNWR. It’s unbelievable how much influence they have now garnered from obsequious followers.