For me a great example is Reed college. Smartest person I ever met, went there. Had a 4.0 GPA. This is an onery school with regards to the bell curve, C average, so a 4.0+ GPA at Reed is a huge deal. Anyway, Reed simply tells US News to fuck off. Thus they are ranked lowly but much higher in reality. Similar to that weirdo Cali desert school with like 8 students that's student run - very smart people, very poorly known to the public. Anyway, Reed is otherwise notable for having a nucular reactor and its hyperliberal political spirit, for example, instead of man and woman bafrooms they have cisgender and transgender bafrooms.