A few anxious types already will have found a copy at an all-night newsstand. But everyone, from admissions directors and placement officers to professors, deans, and students, will pore over this issue. It's like the Academy Awards. Anyone who tells you they don't is lying. Business Week no longer owns the game.
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Working Woman is compiling a survey of the best schools for women. Forbes has been talking about starting its own list. The U.S. News graduate schools survey is among its 10 best-selling issues each year. Business Week 's rankings sell thousands of extra copies at the newsstand. What the rankings do for business schools is complicated and something administrators feel ambivalent about.