re: Vandy advantage

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What makes US News the judge and jury on colleges? Nobody hired them or elected them to that position

private schools are mostly silver spoon rich kids. it is not surprising rich kid schools are ranked higher than publics in general. Follow the money

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Fair enough. But "following the money" doesn't explain why the engineering programs at Berkeley, Illinois, Michigan and Purdue are ranked in their top 10.