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Thursday, June 11, 2026
The Observer

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The Observer

To Walk the Walk of our mission

The latest rankings are out, and Notre Dame is 105th, far behind rivals Stanford (19), Michigan (48), and USC (85). But this isn’t the latest college football recruiting index, algorithm, or poll. This is the College Access Index, the New York Times’ September 2015 ranking of 179 elite American universities according to their economic diversity.