<p>I don’t know about Duke because I have limited exposure to the school. At Cornell, I would estimate 20% and at Stanford it would be roughly 10%. At Michigan it would be 35%. I would estimate Duke would be like Stanford, roughly 10%.</p>
<p>“Listen to what you just said. The quality of the student body isn’t a factor in determining whether schools are peers?! What a joke. “Peer: something of equal worth or quality.” It is a useless categorization using the word “peers” to describe two schools if quality of student body isn’t taken into account.”</p>
<p>I know what I just said. The PA scores at USNRW are used to measure ACADEMIC PROGRAM quality. Berkeley, for one example, has a considerably higher PA than a school like Duke. Do you honestly believe that Berkeley students are smarter on average than Duke students? I am not disagreeing with your views of what a peer school is and if you disagree with USNWR that is your prerogative. However, my point was that you didn’t understand what the PA score measures and you took Alexandre’s quote and never addressed it properly. That is all.</p>
<p>“I don’t know about Duke because I have limited exposure to the school. At Cornell, I would estimate 20% and at Stanford it would be roughly 10%. At Michigan it would be 35%. I would estimate Duke would be like Stanford, roughly 10%.”</p>
<p>Kind of silly to put a number on the amount of so called “dimwits” at any top school. Let’s just say the larger the student body, the higher amount of dimwits at top schools. Who really knows percentages? In the meantime do you really actually assume that over 1/3 of Michigan’s undergraduates are “dimwits” Alexandre. A dimwit is less smarter than the average person. The average good student is not typically accepted to Michigan save some other non academic skill. I assume that there are very few dimwits at Michigan, just some students who are smarter than others.</p>
<p>lol, less smarter</p>
<p>^^^Yeah, not the best grammar. That is what happens when you rewrite a sentence and forget to double check. Oops. LOL</p>
<p>No I know what you mean, grammar and spelling are not my stong suit… and I could give a f___ about how they are on an internet forum</p>
<p>I just read it and thought it was funny</p>
<p>And I think there are some “dimwits” here</p>
<p>Sure you will find dimwits taking dimwit courses. I didn’t find many at all my engineering classes.</p>
<p>^There are few in my engin classes. Every exam there are a few people who get like 15%. </p>
<p>Stop complaining about “dimwits”. They are the reason that we’re on the right side of the bell curve. :)</p>
<p>ya, there are much less in my one engineering class vs my chem class… but I’m only first year so a lot of them might not even be back</p>
<p>there’s definitely more in LSA though. ^ Isn’t there always 1 or 2 who get like 8% on a 20 MC exam in chem130?</p>
<p>we had an exam with 25 MC questions and someone got a 4.</p>
<p>bad luck guessing LOL</p>
<p>If you put C for every answer you should do better than a 4</p>
<p>Which engineering classes? I would expect most of the dimwits would be weeded out after 2 or 3 semesters.</p>
<p>235 thermo and 240 dynamics</p>