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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Rearranged the rankings based on reputation scores,  you're welcome:

4.9 Harvard MIT Stanford 
4.8 Princeton Yale 
4.7 Columbia JHU Berkeley 
4.6 UChicago Penn Caltech Cornell 
4.5 Duke Michigan 
4.4 Northwestern Brown Dartmouth UCLA
4.3 Vanderbilt Carnegie Mellon UVA(!) 
4.2 Wash U Emory Notre Dame Georgetown
4.1 Rice [/quote]

The peer reviews are correct.  In terms of academics prestige, which is basically what peer review measures, the above is the correct order.  Academics don’t care about selectivity, they are looking at schools that have the best faculty, facilities, and prowess.  That is why public schools like Berkeley and Michigan are held in such high esteem. [/quote]
I agree but selectivity matters , at least a little, in terms of overall prestige. There's a reason Rice is ranked so high in the real ranking. [/quote]

It really doesn’t matter to be honest. Most of the universities listed above are highly selective because they are small at the undergraduate level. That does not equate to academic prestige with these people.   That’s why Wash U, Emory, ND, Rice, Vanderbilt, etc are not viewed as favorably as the those listed above them. Too many of you are conflated selectivity with academic strength.  [/quote]
All of these schools are academically strong. You trying to make a point but UCLA's 4.4 is realistically no  different than Vandys 4.3 or even Georgetown's 4.2. The difference is small however the selectivity difference between these schools is very big. These factors balance each other out in the rankings. Lastly academic prestige is not over all prestige, it's only one factor of it. [/quote]

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