flickr.com/photos/34284761@N04​Yesterday, just in time for the arrival of this year's freshman class at Washington University, U.S. News and World Report released its annual college rankings for 2010. Wash. U. came in at number 12, tying with Northwestern. (Just call 'em the Princeton and Yale of the Midwest, folks; let Number 8 University of Chicago, with its inspiring slogan "Where Fun Comes to Die", be the Harvard.)The immediate impact of these results on school pride is unclear. Will the p