The US News and World Report college rankings are out. After hullabaloo over the methodology, a widely advertised pullout by some smaller schools, and a promise to update the rankings, we get...almost the exact same order at the top as last year (Dartmouth dropped out of a tie with Columbia and UChicago at 9th, and Penn, for reasons Dorna will have to explain to me, as nobody outside UPenn understands them, somehow jumped to fifth over MIT and Caltech). Then again, they continued to recognize the smarts at UChicago, so I guess it balances out.