USNews Ranking vs Reality for Placement

Is the USNews Ranking an accurate representation of target schools?

1. Princeton

2. MIT

3. Harvard

4. Stanford

5. Yale

6. Caltech, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern

10. UPenn

11. Cornell, UChicago

13. Brown, Columbia

15. Dartmouth, UCLA

17. UC Berkeley

18. Rice, Notre Dame, Vanderbilt

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