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U.S. News Rankings
When prospective applicants talk about colleges’ “rankings,” they’re usually not referring to any official criteria but rather to the wildly popular – and controversial – annual survey by US News & World Report, which hit the newsstands in August. US News ranks universities and liberal arts colleges as separate categories according to measures such as acceptance rate, student-faculty ratio, and alumni donations. The magazine plugs that data into a formula and then produces its famous lists of the top 50 schools.
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Ivy League Admissions Statistics
Our exclusive data on the Class of 2015 Ivy League Admissions statistics, now updated for Early Action and Early Admissions for the class entering 2011. See exactly how many students applied and how many were accepted to different schools.
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