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Originally Posted by iheartthed
1- MI and PA are definitely liberal leaning states, despite 2016.
2- If you stretch this out to top 30, Georgia Tech is included. Frankly, it's a better school than quite a few that are listed above it. But that's a tangent...
3- Good schools are geographically biased to the original 13 colonies, Midwest and California. I doubt there are even 5 schools in the top 40 of the US News list that don't fit in one of those categories.
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You are correct--only Vanderbilt, Rice, University of Florida, and Tulane are not in the Midwest, the original 13 colonies, or California.
Edit: looks like central Tennessee was claimed by New York until 1782 and by North Carolina until it ceded its claim to the federal government in 1790. I'm not sure if that counts, though--there were equally random claims all over the place (e.g. Massachusetts claimed parts of Michigan and even Wisconsin until 1785) but few of them were realistic enough to really count for the purpose of determining if a school emerged from an original colony.