Anonymous
Post 09/15/2025 07:42     Subject: Help Finding Similar Schools
Anonymous wrote:Just do google search with college name and “peer institution”.


Thank you.
Anonymous
Post 09/15/2025 07:41     Subject: Help Finding Similar Schools
Just do google search with college name and “peer institution”.
Anonymous
Post 09/15/2025 06:25     Subject: Help Finding Similar Schools
SMU ?

Washington & Lee ?
Anonymous
Post 09/15/2025 05:36     Subject: Help Finding Similar Schools
Davidson

Amherst
Bates
Bowdoin
Carleton
Claremont McKenna
Colby
Colgate
Furman
Grinnell
Hamilton
Haverford
Macalester
Middlebury
Oberlin
Pomona
Swarthmore
Vassar
Washington and Lee
Wesleyan
Williams

Peer Institutions | Davidson https://share.google/GwaJwseyUpJGzRaVp
Anonymous
Post 09/14/2025 23:02     Subject: Help Finding Similar Schools
Can someone show the peer schools for these:

Michigan

Northwestern

Vanderbilt

Cornell

Dartmouth

Brown

Wake Forest

Davidson

Middlebury
Anonymous
Post 09/14/2025 21:48     Subject: Help Finding Similar Schools
Anonymous wrote:Thank you for this. DS is an athlete and being recruited by Carleton, and it wasn't really on our radar before because he was focused on east coast SLACs. It's very helpful to see that it's a mutual peer with most of the schools on his list.


It’s a wonderful school and very rigorous.
Anonymous
Post 09/14/2025 21:01     Subject: Help Finding Similar Schools
Anonymous wrote:This is behind a paywall?


You have to sign up but access is free,
Anonymous
Post 09/14/2025 20:56     Subject: Help Finding Similar Schools
This is behind a paywall?
Anonymous
Post 09/14/2025 20:52     Subject: Help Finding Similar Schools
Thank you for this. DS is an athlete and being recruited by Carleton, and it wasn't really on our radar before because he was focused on east coast SLACs. It's very helpful to see that it's a mutual peer with most of the schools on his list.
Anonymous
Post 09/14/2025 20:29     Subject: Help Finding Similar Schools
This can put all the rankings talk to rest. Easily fit schools into clusters.
Anonymous
Post 09/14/2025 20:26     Subject: Help Finding Similar Schools
Some examples.

UVA’s mutual peers: Wisconsin, Florida, Michigan, and North Carolina.

Maryland’s mutual peers: Purdue, Penn State, Ohio State, Michigan, Wisconsin, FIU, Rutgers, Michigan State.

William & Mary: Wake Forest.

Brown: WUSTL, Cornell, Georgetown, Penn, Dartmouth, Yale, Harvard, UChicago, Rice, Northwestern.

University of Rochester: WUSTL, Vanderbilt, Case Western, Northwestern, USC, NYU. (Brown chose Rochester, but Rochester did not choose them back.)

Anonymous
Post 09/14/2025 20:16     Subject: Help Finding Similar Schools
This was posted on DCUM before, but when I was looking at schools I searched for different schools’ peer list. However, the IEPEDs can choose a college’s peer list if they don’t submit one. This shows a school’s mutual peer. Hopefully this helps trying to find similar schools.

https://www.chronicle.com/article/who-does-your-college-think-its-peers-are

Something funny I noticed. My alma mater has all the Ivies and T10s listed as a peer… with none listing them back. Ouch.