#2026 U.S. News Rankings Predictions

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glass lance
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but i dont do typing practice so it sucks

dim crescent
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and the whole server votes

glass lance
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whats the topic

lofty silo
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Nah 5 minutes

dim crescent
wet cove
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keyboard warrior

rose bloom
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bros not eve ntied

dim crescent
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i'm not that fast anymore

fringe frost
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AI makes that pointless

dim crescent
glass lance
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i type faster on my chromebook

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i can hit 140wpm on chrmebook

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but only 130wpm on my actual keyboard

rose bloom
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hamilton of the modern era

glass lance
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oh nvm

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i just did 142 on my actual keyboard

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i underestimate myself

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let me shoot for 150

fringe frost
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Whenever has more LinkedIn connections wins

glass lance
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@rose bloom

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yo i just did 151wpm on my actual keyboard wtf

rose bloom
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this fles

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x

glass lance
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i had to lock in though

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usually i type 115

lofty silo
fringe frost
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That’s so hard

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There are 4,000 colleges

lofty silo
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yea but it fits the spirit of guessing schools

fringe frost
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We’d need a lot of hints

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How many schools they got into, and maybe a list to choose from

lofty silo
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nah js go blind happythumbsup

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maybe u can get a list of where they applied

night herald
rose bloom
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guess how much bans a2c has closest one wins

night herald
dim crescent
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wait what about you guys try to find the craziest reddit posts posted on r/a2c in terms of craziness

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and person who finds the craziest one wins (no super popular known posts)

fringe frost
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the one about kissing their Yale interviewer

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oh

lofty silo
dim crescent
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i found something wild already

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look at the comment from OP

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on a side note i really don't like it when i see people doing things solely to get into colleges

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like if u want to be an editor in chief for fun u should do it, but don't do it solely for college apps, there's more to life than college applications

rose bloom
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lowkey too common nowadays

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i dont think the comment meant to phrase it like that

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itd be crazy committment to do newspaper for 4 years just for college 😭

dim crescent
dim crescent
glass lance
dusky kayak
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T-T

fringe frost
glass lance
night herald
glass lance
umbral basin
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has it been decided

glass lance
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drop ur score

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we just doin it for fun

umbral basin
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score for what

umbral basin
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haha i used to make youtube videos about nitro type i had 1k subs i used to be pretty well known in the community

wraith cobalt
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uhh good question

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i was thinking of at least throwing out $10 amazon card or 1 month nitro for 1st

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not sure about the others

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i also wanna throw in a couple random awards like us news does

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yk like "most innovative school" and all

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idk what people would want bc theres also the issue that certain rewards may require an email to send and ik some people dont wanna give theirs out

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ik amazon and nitro dont need emails so i usually default to those

umbral basin
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and the icon can be a labubu

wraith cobalt
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well lets get the final 1st-4th figured out first

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before anyone claims their own personal

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i can take suggestions for rewards in general

umbral basin
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oh yes for sure

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i’m gonna sleep now

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good night

shrewd viper
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participation award of sparkly gradient role 🙏

shrewd viper
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there aren't a lot of prizes that require no authentification or have privacy while sent 🥀

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a2c keychain fr

glass lance
fringe frost
fringe frost
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@wraith cobalt if @worldly ether never replies do I win by default

timber skiff
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how did i do

wraith cobalt
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146 points

tardy kelp
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how did i do

wraith cobalt
tardy kelp
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dang

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just like donda academy

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robbed again

timber skiff
tacit horizon
rain locust
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i got first of course right

wraith cobalt
rain locust
wild comet
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how did i do if u dm me askijng

wraith cobalt
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Oh don’t mind

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I thought you meant direct message

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16th place 95 points

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I can send individual score sheet tho too

wild comet
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ohhhhh awesome omg

dawn ore
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or most points

night herald
tranquil rapids
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How did I do?

fringe frost
lofty silo
fringe frost
tranquil ore
glass lance
wraith cobalt
dusky kayak
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@wraith cobalt how did i do

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sorry for the ping :0

clever dock
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WTF HOW

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Yo what’s going on

fringe frost
clever dock
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YOOOOO

fringe frost
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We have to decide on a tiebreaker for 1st and 3rd

clever dock
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Ah

fringe frost
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Now we just need @worldly ether to wake up

clever dock
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😭

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How is ts gonna work

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Bc I’m busy most of the day

fringe frost
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Brother is tied for first and has not logged on once since he won

clever dock
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😭

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Is ts aura

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I kinda forgot my rankings too

wraith cobalt
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You didn’t rank 2 of the 8 ivies in any capacity

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Also skipped UChicago and washu

wraith cobalt
# clever dock I kinda forgot my rankings too

School Your Rank Correct Rank Point Value (less is better!)
Princeton 1 1 0
MIT 2 2 0
Harvard 3 3 0
Stanford 3 4 1
Yale 5 4 1
Caltech 6 11 5
Duke 7 7 0
UPenn 8 7 1
University of Chicago 9 6 3
Northwestern 10 7 3
Johns Hopkins 11 7 4
Cornell 12 12 0
Brown 13 13 0
Columbia 13 15 2
Dartmouth 13 13 0
Notre Dame 16 20 4
Rice 16 17 1
Vanderbilt 16 17 1
UCLA 19 17 2
UC Berkeley 20 15 5
WashU 20 20 0
Carnegie Mellon - 20 20
UMich - 20 20
Total 73

rose bloom
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wb me heh

wraith cobalt
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You were in 1st for about half my grading

rose bloom
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oh wow

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i expected worse

wraith cobalt
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The two tied for 1st ranked 21

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Had you ranked 21 that were in the t23 and done slightly better on a few others you would’ve been at or near the top

rose bloom
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oh i couldve included 21 as a tie?

wraith cobalt
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I stated this lol

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Most of you just didn’t read it

rose bloom
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i read it but like i guess i forgo

wraith cobalt
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I think a good number of you also just weren’t aware that the t20 has been a t20 + 1 or 2 every now and then

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This year’s 3 was more than usual but 1 or 2 isn’t uncommon

rose bloom
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probably wouldve tied ND

wraith cobalt
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Ajay (5th place) did the best out of anyone who only ranked 20

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8 were spot on

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7 were 1 off

rose bloom
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damn

wraith cobalt
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Macro had the most spot on with 9

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Only 4 1 offs tho

wraith cobalt
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Out of your 20 guesses half of them were exactly 1 off

rose bloom
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urgh i shouldve put penn higher

wraith cobalt
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You were only off by 2 for Penn

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Your big ones were Caltech and Chicago but that was most everyone

rose bloom
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i was fairly sure theyd go up but not by 3

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or however many it was

wraith cobalt
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You had UCLA 16 Rice 18 when they ended up tying at 17

rose bloom
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the ucla berkeley swap was not expected

wraith cobalt
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That was part of one of your streaks of 4

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The last of that one was you putting 19 for CMU instead of 20

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And then your other entirely different streak was getting the first 4 exactly correct

rose bloom
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the idea was there 😍

surreal kestrel
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do u have mine? ik i didnt score high. but i just want to know

wraith cobalt
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You did rank Harvey Mudd which is not on the rankings list at all so that added another 100 points

surreal kestrel
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no idea y i did that

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but yea...

wraith cobalt
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You got closer to Caltech than most

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Only 2 off

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Most were 5 or 6 off

surreal kestrel
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✅

wet cove
clever dock
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Ahhh thx

lofty silo
wraith cobalt
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I only counted from 1st down to find the 5th guy

wraith cobalt
wraith cobalt
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We still need to figure out tiebreakers

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Then we can put the US Snooze Rankings to bed

fringe frost
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Both 3rd places have responded

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It’s just @worldly ether

wraith cobalt
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Well the 3rd places need to figure out how they’re gonna tiebreak

dusky kayak
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wait i suck :0

pastel mantle
wraith cobalt
wraith cobalt
# dusky kayak wait i suck :0

Ehhhh your issue was that when you were off you were very off

You didn’t include Brown, Columbia, UChicago, or WashU in any capacity which added 80 points right there

You were off by 11 for CMU and 9 for JHU

There were a few others with some margin but you got the first four spot on with the 5th only one off

Overall you had 6 on the dot and 4 one off

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I can send your full sheet to you if you want

mental shore
wraith cobalt
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I’ll download your sheet and dm

worldly ether
fringe frost
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We both tied for first place

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We need to decide on a tiebreaker

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@wraith cobalt

worldly ether
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Didn't think I would get first

fringe frost
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Me either 😭

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do you have a proposal on how to tie breaker?

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My two ideas were:

1: Carly inputs the T20 into a random picker and it will pick a school. Whichever one of us was more accurate for that school wins

2: Carly sends our lists to ChatGPT and asks it which seems more like a correct USNews ranking

worldly ether
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or if you want to

fringe frost
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Sure why not. I’ll call it right before? Or you will?

worldly ether
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You will choose

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Mr. Macrophage won the coin toss

fringe frost
wraith cobalt
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Now we need the third place tiebreaker

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Also idk what prizes we want

tacit horizon
glass lance
hot stirrup
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Why are we monkeytyping

umbral basin
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U

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Hi

umbral basin
fringe frost
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Someone suggested using ai

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That was my response

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I won anyway

south sinew
wraith cobalt
south sinew
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expected, ty

worldly ether
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all i did was copy the current ones and got first place 😭

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didn't think it would work, but very clearly the conclusion is that they barely change the rankings every year

wraith cobalt
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You tied for first yes

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But you didn’t copy paste the old rankings

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  1. Princeton
  1. MIT
  2. Harvard
  3. Stanford
  4. Yale
  5. Caltech
  6. Duke
  7. John Hopkings
  8. Northwestern
  9. UPenn
  10. Cornell
  11. UChicago
  12. Brown
  13. Columbia
  14. Dartmouth
  15. UCLA
  16. UC Berkeley
  17. Rice
  18. Notre Dame
  19. Vanderbilt
  20. Carnegie-Mellon
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It’s not horribly far off but cmu wasn’t t20 last year

worldly ether
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usnews

umbral basin
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Ok let’s get the show on the road

loud yew
clever dock
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Sure! Here’s a version you could use:
We don’t need a tiebreaker because the whole point of these rankings was to have fun, not to split hairs over who edges out whom. By tying for third, we both proved ourselves equally sharp, so it makes sense to celebrate it as a shared win rather than create artificial separation. In other words—we’re both winners here.

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Group hug a2c!

night herald
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Chatgtp 🥀

clever dock
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No I wrote that

night herald
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Sybau🥀 clanker

clever dock
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💔

rain locust
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ai hell yeah

surreal kestrel
clever dock
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💔

night herald
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Is this what t20 students do

fringe frost
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@clever dock @umbral basin do a tiebreaker already so it can be put to rest

umbral basin
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oh wait

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no they’re here

fringe frost
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Just do a coin toss like we did

umbral basin
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@wraith cobalt ideas

fringe frost
wraith cobalt
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Maybe we can do that for top 3 + a few special award ones

pastel mantle
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One of those special awards should be for 13th place 🙏

umbral basin
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@clever dock wsp

clever dock
# umbral basin <@928423500912422953> wsp

We don’t need a tiebreaker because sharing third place shows that both of us performed equally well and deserve the recognition. A tie highlights that success isn’t always about separating winners, but celebrating shared achievement.

rose bloom
clever dock
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I wrote that

lofty silo
umbral basin
clever dock
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Group hug a2c!

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Ts us

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Give us both the prize twin 🥹

rose bloom
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me w my participation award

fringe frost
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Uh

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Okay then

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@wraith cobalt is a joint third place allowed?

wraith cobalt
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Why is this kid holding everyone hostage with a tie

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What is so bad about a tiebreaker

surreal kestrel
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😭

umbral basin
fringe frost
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cmon

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Holding Berg and I hostage until you do

umbral basin
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I’m fine with a tie breaker

fringe frost
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@clever dock you gotta agree to a tie breaker or ur prob gonna be de facto 4th

clever dock
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ok

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so what now twin

surreal kestrel
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coin flip 🤷‍♂️

umbral basin
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Let’s do it !

clever dock
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Who will facilitate

fringe frost
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You both go into a discord dm

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Someone shares their screen

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The person who didn’t share their screen calls heads or tails

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The person sharing their screen opens a brand new browser and asks Google to flip a coin

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Then you report back here

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If you report back here with opposite answers… well hopefully you have more integrity than that

fringe frost
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Or you could both DM each other what you call (so I don’t know who is what), and I’ll flip a coin, and then I’ll send the result and you can screenshot the DMs and that will be it

clever dock
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Ok

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I'm a busy freshman tho so we might have to wait a little for a time that works for both of us

umbral basin
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seems too hard

umbral basin
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ig

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-roll 100

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!roll 100

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or we could do a little gamble

fringe frost
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And I’ll flip

clever dock
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Ok

umbral basin
fringe frost
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Ok

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Who called heads?

umbral basin
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Me 😝

fringe frost
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@wraith cobalt

1: Mr. Macrophage
2: Burg
3: Lowell
4: Vienna

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I love how this took from 9/24 to 10/2 to solve

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Over a week

wraith cobalt
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Is average or median more accurate

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I’m asking Gemini to get stats and idk which to do

fringe frost
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median tends to be more reliable in normal distributions

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which I'm assuming this is?

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do the scores seem fairly evenly distributed

jagged bay
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mean is

wraith cobalt
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you submitted one on your other account too right

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trying to figure out if we have another tie or not

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if we do ill break it on my own

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but if your other account is alan then were fine

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oh yeah it must be theyre the exact same ranking

clever dock
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GG

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Is only top 3 prize

wraith cobalt
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A2Rankings Awards

a2capgold @fringe frost
a2capsilver @worldly ether
a2capbronze @umbral basin

Honorary Awards

Middest Rankings: @hybrid roost (lined up closest to the median)
Most Innovative in Stalling: @clever dock
Most Dedicated Fan: @rain locust (ranked Purdue 86 times)

If you want a prize lmk i can do temp roles or nitro or small gift card

Also see attached images i spent longer than id like to admit making them

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umbral basin
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Aw

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Thanks chloe

rain locust
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yay thanks chloe :D

fringe frost
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Thanks Chloe!

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Hell 😭

fringe frost
wraith cobalt
fringe frost
umbral basin
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how long do the roles last

clever dock
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W mod

uncut summit
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Good job Chloe!

tranquil ore
fringe frost
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as long as it gives me a pretty color

tranquil ore
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and purple is a regal color

wraith cobalt
fringe frost
wraith cobalt
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You all alr got event participant permanently

umbral basin
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are yall low on role space

wraith cobalt
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I need to keep incentives open

fringe frost
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Thank you Chloe

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Much appreciated

hybrid roost
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OMG I WONNN MIDDEST RANKINGS

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RAHHH

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AND my school made it to number 6 this year

pastel mantle
wraith cobalt
pastel mantle
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like the rankings

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idk just curious

wraith cobalt
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If you want your own I can send but we gave people the option to not share publicly and we’re not gonna change that option now

pastel mantle
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ohh alr

wraith cobalt
jagged bay
night herald
umbral basin
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Wait i’ll cop a role just named twin

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Can it be sand color

wraith cobalt
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What hex

umbral basin
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Can i invite people to it