Thanks so much for all the data! I was just about to write a "well, hopefully nobody on HN cares about these rankings" post, trying to remember some of the fact

Thanks so much for all the data! I was just about to write a "well, hopefully nobody on HN cares about these rankings" post, trying to remember some of the facts I read about, but your post summarizes these data so well, no need to post at all. Just for the record: I recently read (presumably on HN, too) about a ranking where somebody asked lawyers to rank schools according to their prestige. Penn-State always got ranked in the middle, even though it didn't have a law school at all. So, in a sense it doesn't even matter if administrators are cheating or not...