USNews.com ranking boycott update

Penn is out, so is NYU, and so is the University of Washington in Seattle.  Virginia, Texas, Vanderbilt, and Southern California--among top schools--have made no announcement either way.   Chicago, Cornell, Wash U/St. Louis, Georgia, and George Mason have formally announced they are not joining the boycott and it's a safe assumption that any school that hasn't announced (or doesn't announce very soon) is also not joining the boycott.   Alas, if only 15 or 20 schools boycott, that will not create insurmountable obstacles for USNews.com.