NU is tied at 9 w Johns Hopkins and Caltech.
Comments: (disclaimer - all are based on my s**t memory)
We don't seem to move around a lot. I think we've been between 9-12 as long as I can remember.
Stanford at #6 is only FBS school ahead of us.
Meanwhile, Chicago is tied at #6. They are very high in recent years, but I feel like at one point their undergrad program was an afterthought, perhaps due to the spartan existence bordering on a slum. Anyway, kudos to Milton Friedman U.
Similarly Johns Hopkins, perhaps I didn't notice until 2013 when I moved to Balt, I always thought of it as a medical school and hospital. And a Lacrosse team.
Duke at #12 (looks for middle finger emoji). Wash U at 16 seems to have faded since their strategy to get millions to apply so they could reject a high percentage.
ND 19 Mich 24. Too bad not out of top 25.
UCLA ahead of USC.
Emory at #21. They run me the wrong way - very abrasive.
Several B1G schools between 48-66. Iowa 88. UNL 133.
On a side note, Valpo, which cost me 80k to educate my daughter a while back, used to be regularly in the top 10 of their region of "regional universities" . They are now 160th in national universities, which an enrollment of 3k. Go figure