These rankings have been “out” most of the day around the blogosphere, but now it seems that even the people at U.S. News and World Report have leaked their own rankings more than an hour before the midnight release time. Sorry for all those readers who had their popcorn and blankets ready for the midnight powwow, but we at the Insider felt obligated to share the results.
Cornell dropped to 15th nationally, behind Johns Hopkins but still ahead of our our Ivy League counterparts in Providence. This list still features acceptance and tuition rates from 2008, though, so we’ll be sure to update after midnight if it turns out to be a “bogus leak.”
Apart from the four way clusterf#%k for fourth place (Stanford, MIT, Penn, Cal Tech) and a renewed tie between Harvard and Princeton for 1st, there aren’t too many notable moves in the top 25 to report.
