Columbia climbs to fourth on U.S. News & World Report list of best colleges

Our beloved alma mater, which for the past few years has proudly but longingly hovered near the #8 spot with Duke and the University of Chicago, has jumped up to #4 in U.S. News & World Report's latest list of the best colleges in the country. Harvard took the top spot, followed by Princeton and Yale. Stanford and Penn tied for fifth.

Not that these lists matter.

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