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Farm93, it sounds like you acknowledge that academics are important and that the rankings do impact kids' perception of schools' academic quality.  So we are really just talking about where kids probably end up drawing the line.  I broke it down into tiers of 15, i.e. 1-15, 16-30, 31-45, 46-60, etc.  I said that Stanford has a big advantage over schools outside the top 45.  You said that any school in the top 50 can compete with any other, so the difference is that you want to add Wisconsin, Penn State, Florida, Miami, and Washington.  I disagree that people think that those schools are in the same universe as Stanford in terms of academic quality, but even if we move the line back 5 spots, the principle is the same.  My point is that Stanford needs to find a way to land the next Devon Allen.

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Farm93, it sounds like you acknowledge that academics are important and that the rankings do impact kids' perception of schools' academic quality.  So we are really just talking about where kids probably end up drawing the line.  I broke it down into tiers of 15, i.e. 1-15, 16-30, 31-45, 46-60, etc.  I said that Stanford has a big advantage over schools outside the top 45.  You said that any school in the top 50 can compete with any other, so the difference is that you want to add Wisconsin, Penn State, Florida, Miami, and Washington.  I disagree that people think that those schools are in the same universe as Stanford in terms of academic quality, but even if we move the line back 5 spots, the principle is the same.  My point is that Stanford needs to find a way to land the next Devon Allen.