<p>How credible is their academic assessment for schools. I believe i saw that Carnegie Mellon was a 99 which is comparable to Harvard at a 99. Is this really a justified synopsis?</p>
<p>I never look at the ratings or rankings when using The Princeton Review. I look at the written reviews of the school instead. I personally don’t think the ratings and rankings are accurate in any way, they change every 3 years when the school gets surveyed again</p>
<p>I think most ranking systems are skewed in some way or another – look at the ranking methodology (their page has to have a methods section in which they explain what factors they took into account what the weights are). For instance I don’t trust U.S. News too much because “peer assessment” is a good 25% of their methodology, which means that they ask officials at top schools what they think are other top schools. Of course, it’s in those people’s best interest to rate certain schools in the same bracket as them.</p>
<p>People have been trying for years to quantitatively evaluate and rank universities. It’s not possible to perfectly do so, because there are so many qualitative factors that confound the analysis. It is much more useful to group schools into clusters comparatively. Harvard has more name recognition and a better reputation than Carnegie Mellon. Does that mean the academics are better? Not necessarily. If you’re in computer science, obviously CMU is the place to be. Pittsburgh and Cambridge are two very different cities. See where I’m going? Much more useful to ignore those ratings and select based on fit.</p>
<p>I think PR is great for the student reviews. That’s what matters to me. If you like the PR student reviews, check out <a href="http://www..com%5B/url%5D">www..com</a>.</p>
<p>What the heck happened? <a href=“http://www”>www</a>. ***** .com.</p>
<p>Uhm… <a href=“http://www”>www</a>. uni go .com?</p>
<p>LOL CC censors the website addresses of competitor websites :P</p>