USNEws and World Reports is a subjective ranking whereby each school fills out a questionnaire on their peer institutions..subjective at best. But I agree that acceptance rate is a poor indicator. Go to Princeton review and look at the academic rating for each school. Much more objective. Also, ASU is NOT a strong academic school. Cant believe you would even use it in the same posting as the Stanford, UVA and the others
I think ASU was used in terms of those seeking climate.
Quite honestly, I can see all of the PAC-10 schools picking up this sport and making it next to impossible for the east coast schools (other than Ivy) to entice kids from the west.
