What is interesting to me is that USNWR used to list all of the schools with ratings below 2.0 as unranked and not show the actual scores. Now they do...and we can all see what school came in dead last.
top 50 - which is sorta sad, but in the top 10 for private schools, and I will argue they will never be rated high using a lot of the metrics USNWR uses as research dollars just are not a priority.
That being said, I precept for the #1 in the country! I also precept for the #69 as well, and from my experience, there is not a noticeable difference in quality of candidates from these two schools, definitely a different teaching philosophy, but not a difference in being able to come in and do the job.