Peer Colleges
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Anonymous
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Each year colleges select their peer schools and release the data to the ipdes.
Here are the top 25 schools and the other top schools that chose them as peers Some takeaways I saw, Most public schools get little love from privates. Georgetown doesn't have many top peers https://www.chronicle.com/article/who-does-your-college-think-its-peers-are?cid=gen_sign_in#id=139658 |
Anonymous
| It's not paywalled, an account is free. But if anyone wants me to search for a school for them I can, as I have an account. |
Anonymous
+1 The only top 25 school, I see picked GU was Brown. NYU and Tufts also picked them but aren't really top schools. That is a bit strange. |
Anonymous
Northwestern and Chicago please |
Anonymous
Sure, only posting top 25 matches, some schools may have matched to more Northwestern- Rice, Emory, Vandy, Hopkins, Cornell, WashU, UChicago, Brown UChicago- Upenn, Yale, Northwestern, Caltech, WashU, Cornell, Brown, Hopkins |
Anonymous
| This is what rankings should be based on, instead of the lists DCUM likes to make. Wake Forest and Liberty University are the only private that chose UVA as a peer. Very telling. |
Anonymous
But Harvard didn't chose MIT as a peer. You don't think these schools are the same level? |
Anonymous
| UVA UNC duke Emory wake forest |
Anonymous
It seems as if UChicago and Columbia would have more in common for undergrads than UChicago and the distribution-requirements-light schools on this list. |
Anonymous
UChicago is selective but prestige wise it's not there yet. It seems like the admissions office at Chicago agrees because so many of its students are ED students. They know they can't compete. |
Anonymous
UVA UMich and UNC are a match. Wake Forest and Bowdoin chose as a peer but UVA did not reciprocate. UNC UVA and UMich are a match. Wake Forest and Bowdoin chose as a peer but UNC did not reciprocate. Wake Forest Tufts, William&Mary, and GWU are a match. Bowdoin, Boston College, and Northeastern chose as a peer but Wake did not reciprocate. Emory Northwestern, WashU, and Vanderbilt are a match. Carnegie Mellon, Notre Dame, Wake Forest, UNC, UVA, Bowdoin, Tufts, Umich, USC, and Boston College chose as a peer but Emory did not reciprocate Duke Duke chose no school as a peer and thus has no matches. Cornell, Emory, Vanderbilt, Umich, NYU, Northwestern, UNC, Hopkins, Brown, UVA, Notre Dame, Rice, WashU, Georgetown, and many more chose as peers. |
Anonymous
I'm sure this won't knock Georgetown and its alumni off their high horse because Georgetown picked 10 colleges as peers and only one returned the favor... Brown. No other t25 picked them, and Tufts and NYU are T30. |
Anonymous
You’re on drugs |
Anonymous
No, you're just delusional. UChicago takes 80% of its freshman class in the ED rounds. This artificially lowers the acceptance rate and lessons the effects of low RD yield. |
Anonymous
| Take these lists with a huge grain of salt. It's all very self-serving and pretty meaningless. The difference between the most selective colleges and their backups are minimal, but this kind of drivel allows them to make it seem greater than it really is, just like the USNWR rankings do. |