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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At the elite level, Duke, Northwestern and Stanford probably give you the best balance of both top-tier academics and access to big time sports culture. You could arguably also throw ND in there, too.[/quote]

The academics at Michigan are just as good as Duke and Northwestern, and certainly Notre Dame. [/quote]

Almost as good. Different experience with 30k undergrads.[/quote]

PA scores from USNWR

Michigan.       4.5
Duke             4.5
Northwestern 4.4

Notre Dame    4.2

Just as good…..[/quote]

I've never understood what this metric means.  It seems to largely be administrators repeating earlier USNWR PA ratings that were probably based on an vague overall assessment of the school (undergrad, grad, research), not for how much an undergraduate is taught or tested.  Caltech at 4.6 is at the same level as Penn in PA.  No offense to Penn grads, but a Caltech grad is going to be pushed more than grads in the same majors at Penn.  Caltech gets dinged a couple of tenths for being small and not having humanities.   [/quote]

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