<p>Based PURELY on Prestige (within academic circles) rank the following the schools please:</p>
<li>Washington University in St. Louis</li>
<li>Northwestern University</li>
<li>Georgetown University</li>
<li>Johns Hopkins</li>
<li>University of Chicago</li>
<li>Cornell University</li>
</ol>
<p>my take on it:</p>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>Hopkins</li>
<li>Uchicago/northwestern</li>
<li>Gtown</li>
<li>WashU</li>
</ol>
<p>your take?</p>
<p>I’d say:</p>
<ol>
<li>Chicago</li>
<li>Cornell/Hopkins</li>
<li>Northwestern/WashU</li>
<li>Georgetown</li>
</ol>
<p>Surprisingly, I think this mimics the peer assessments from USNWR. Not intended, but I suppose I hold a similar view.</p>
<p>before i get any angry posters – this is purely for fun/speculation/curiosity</p>
<p><strong>this is in no way a representation of how the schools actually are – all the schools listed here are absolutely phenomenal, and I don’t think anyone could go wrong with ANY of them</strong></p>
<p>I think it’s important to note how you phrased the question. Strictly in “academic circles” I would venture that it would be difficult to argue that UChicago belongs at the top. I think Cornell, despite it being baptized by the waters of Ivy, isn’t held in the same academic and intellectual regard as UChicago.</p>
<ol>
<li>The University of Chicago</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>Hopkins/Northwestern</li>
<li>Georgetown</li>
<li>WashU</li>
</ol>
<p>are you comparing these colleges because youre trying to pick one?</p>
<p>edit: rankings</p>
<p>University of Chicago
Cornell University
Georgetown University/Johns Hopkins
Northwestern University/Washington University in St. Louis</p>
<ol>
<li>Cornell (Because you said prestige.)</li>
<li>Northwestern/UC</li>
<li>Hopkins/Gtown</li>
<li>WashU</li>
</ol>
<p>My personal pref.</p>
<ol>
<li>U o’ C, admittedly I am a bit of nerd and feel comfortable with my kind.</li>
<li>Northwestern, had I been one of those cool kids with the brains too.</li>
<li>Cornell, the campus was truly beautiful.</li>
<li>Gtown, eh… it’s alright.</li>
<li>Hopkins, Baltimore kind of blows.</li>
<li>WashU, something distasteful about a Washington University in Missouri.</li>
</ol>
<p>
That question has already been answered for you. Look at the US News and World Report Peer Assessment score.</p>
<p>JHU/Chicago/Cornell = 4.6</p>
<p>Northwestern = 4.3</p>
<p>WUSTL = 4.1
Georgetown = 4.0</p>
<p>I’m going to second aworldapart.</p>
<ol>
<li>The University of Chicago</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>Hopkins/Northwestern</li>
<li>Georgetown</li>
<li>WashU</li>
</ol>
<p>And, like Beefs, I’m hoping this isn’t a determining factor. :D</p>
<p>In academic circles,</p>
<ol>
<li>Chicago</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>Northwestern</li>
<li>Hopkins</li>
<li>WashU</li>
<li>Georgetown</li>
</ol>
<p>From a Bay Area perspective (not mine, what my peers think):</p>
<ol>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>Georgetown</li>
<li>University of Chicago</li>
<li>Northwestern</li>
<li>Johns Hopkins</li>
<li>Washington University in St. Louis</li>
</ol>
<p>EDIT: So it basically still the same for us except Chicago and Northwestern switch.</p>
<ol>
<li>University of Chicago</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>Johns Hopkins</li>
<li>Georgetown</li>
<li>Northwestern</li>
<li>Washington University in St. Louis</li>
</ol>
<p>haha, no worries guys – this is not determining my choice (considering I only applied to 4 of these, 2 waitlists and 2 acceptances)</p>
<p>I’m actually going with Rutgers Honors (for absolutely no financial reasons) – going against the prestige-monger way. </p>
<p>I just was curious.</p>
<p>make sure to remember: within academic circles</p>
<p>Cornell
Chicago
Northwestern
Johns Hopkins
Georgetown
Washington U St Louis</p>
<p>There alreadfy is a prestige rank within academic circles. That’s pretty much what the Peer Assessment score of the USNWR is. Historically, I would say it goes something like this:</p>
<p>1) Cornell University
<p>4) Northwestern University</p>
<p>5) Georgetown University
5) Washington University-St Louis</p>
<p>so many responses in such little time :)</p>
<p>Academics:</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Hopkins/U Chicago/Georgetown SFS</p></li>
<li><p>Cornell</p></li>
<li><p>Northwestern/WUSTL</p></li>
<li><p>Georgetown college</p></li>
</ol>
<p>Prestige:</p>
<ol>
<li><p>Cornell/Hopkins/Georgetown SFS</p></li>
<li><p>Northwestern</p></li>
<li><p>U Chicago/Georgetown</p></li>
<li><p>WUSTL</p></li>
</ol>
<p>I think WUSTL is fairly underrated, and I think that it is important to recognize Georgetown SFS as a seperate entity.</p>
<p>Post #7 is the one that answers your question. </p>
<p>It’s result of a survey of over 2,000 academics.</p>
<p>Chem Grad, out of curiosity, is that undergrad peer rating or the overall grad or a combination?</p>
<p>^ To answer your question beefs, I would think it would be impossible to make that distinction when you’re taking a survey on something as vague as prestige/academic quality. As much as they would like to, the assessments they give would be highly dictated by the preconceived notions of quality which are usually formed by the prestige of specific areas of concentration/schools within the universities.</p>
<p>For instance, Hopkins’ PA score is undoubtedly reflective of the prestige of its medical school more so than its undergrad programs, U of C of its econ department and law school more than anything else.</p>
<p>Cornell, Northwestern and WashU’s scores, on the other hand, are probably more reflective of the overall undergrad prestige since their academic reputation is not as concentrated on a few select programs as it is with Hopkins and UC.</p>
<p>And, to state the obvious, Cornell gets a gracious boost in the PA spectrum for its Ivy status.</p>
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<p>This is really an unfounded and quite silly statement. Chicago is about top 10 in every area by the NRC rankings, so why would it be only top 6 or whatever it is just because of its econ department? Also, academics aren’t affected by prestige of a certain department as much as the general public is. In addition, presidents come from various backgrounds. </p>
<p>Furthermore, you could apply this to any school. You could say Yale’s only up there because of its law school, that MIT’s only up there because of engineering, etc. It’s a silly hypothesis, really.</p>