The results (with nearly 500 votes) were actually not unreasonable (thanks to the well-informed readership of this blog), though there were a few slightly odd ones that I expect we won't see replicated in the PGR surveys conducted this fall; more on the odd results, below. I list the top 25 below the fold, noting the vote gaps between each school. I've also inserted lines to reflect the more significant gaps in the votes. In some cases where the vote gap was very small, I treated the results as a tie.
1. New York University
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2. Rutgers University, New Brunswick (94 votes behind NYU)
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3. Princeton University (87 votes behind Rutgers)
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4. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (220 votes behind Princeton)
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5. University of Southern California (101 votes behind Michigan)
6. Yale University (19 votes behind USC)
7. Harvard University (26 votes behind Yale)
University of Pittsburgh (5 votes behind Harvard)
9. University of California, Berkeley (29 votes behind Pittsburgh)
10. Stanford University (27 votes behind Berkeley)
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11. Columbia University (88 votes behind Stanford)
Massachussetts Institute of Technology (4 votes behind Columbia)
13. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (34 votes behind MIT)
14. University of California, Los Angeles (25 votes behind North Carolina)
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15. University of Arizona (48 votes behind UCLA)
16. Cornell University (34 votes behind Arizona)
City University of New York Graduate Center (6 votes behind Cornell)
18. Brown University (41 votes behind CUNY)
19. University of Chicago (39 votes behind Brown)
20. University of Notre Dame (36 votes behind Chicago)
21. University of Texas, Austin (32 votes behind Notre Dame)
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22. Duke University (91 votes behind Texas)
23. University of California, San Diego (35 votes behind Duke)
24. University of Wisconsin, Madison (42 votes behind UCSD)
25. Northwestern University (17 votes behind Wisconsin)
Here are the results that strike me as a bit odd. Cornell was 17th in 2014, but since then lost Jill North and Ted Sider to Rutgers, Charles Brittain to Toronto, and Andrew Chignell to Penn; they did appoint Rachana Kamtekar, laterally, from Arizona. I guess I will be surprised if they aren't lower than 16th in the fall PGR surveys.
Northwestern was 31st in 2014, and lost Charles Mills (to CUNY) since then, while adding Jose Medina from Vanderbilt. Some faculty there have had rising profiles in the interim (e.g., Cariani, Lackey), but I guess I will be surprised if they make the top 25 in the actual surveys--especially compared to schools like UC Irvine, Wash U/St. Louis and Penn, which all finished behind it here, some of which ranked higher than Northwestern in 2014 and have not gotten weaker in the interim.
I was surprised by UCLA's relatively tepid showing here, though it's within the realm of possible results this fall I guess. Both UCLA and Pitt seem to have declining profiles (relative to their earlier, "lofty" heights)--we've seen that even in the PGR surveys in 2014. This might be because their senior heavyweights (like Burge, Herman, and Kaplan at UCLA, and McDowell and Wilson at Pitt) are in their 70s (or older), and the younger generation hasn't yet secured comparable influence and visibility. (In the case of UCLA, it's a tad odd, since they have retained two of their younger folks from Harvard in recent years.)
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