<p>My School: UPenn</p>
<p>Peer Schools I Respect: Brown, UChicago, Princeton, Johns Hopkins, Columbia, Duke, Cornell</p>
<p>My school: Duke</p>
<p>Respected peers: Chicago, Hopkins, Penn, Princeton, Brown, Dartmouth, Columbia, Cornell, Berk</p>
<p>(And right or wrong aside, rjkofnovi, you’ve been a snarky a-hole. I did read the entire thread, before you use that retort again.)</p>
<p>My School: University of Chicago</p>
<p>School that I respect the most: Cal Tech
(Cal Tech was the only school that I was afraid to apply.)</p>
<p>To the Duke poster: The fact that the Robertson program exists, not only reinforces, but also validates—institutionally—the fact that UNC and Duke are peers, and have been for quite a while. Fifteen years of US News rankings cannot reverse 200+ years of academic excellence. With that said, universities in which I respect/admire:</p>
<p>IU-Bloomington: I think IU is very underrated and excels in several programs, som of which are considered elite, such as the Jacob School of Music. It also has one of the best campus art museums in the country.</p>
<p>New College of Florida: One of the most intense and well-rounded programs in the country. Classes are small, the grading system is unconventional, and intellectual curiosity is encouraged. Oh, and it’s public. </p>
<p>UT-Austin: The fact that UT-Texas trails behind institutions such as UC-Irvine is absurd. UT has one of the best engineering, law and business schools in the country, and many of its graduate programs are ranked top in the field. It is easily a peer to Michigan, Berkley, and UIUC. I doubt Irvine has contributed more to academia than UT. </p>
<p>St. Johns College: Has one of the few great book programs left in the country. IMO, it is the best way the humanities should be taught: through the original text, in the words of the authors—or, “great men and women.”</p>
<p>Not to beat a dead horse, but what is everyone’s impression of BU? Peer schools?</p>
<p>School: Chicago
Respect: Caltech, MIT. Crazy like us, but actually productive. Either that, or Chicago kids have hard-ons for engineers . . . xD</p>
<p>I go to UCLA.</p>
<p>I respect Stanford, Cal Tech, UCB, USC, and Pomona. Out of state I respect the Ivy’s, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ill, and UNC.</p>
<p>I have to admit some respect for the way Williams College (MA) utilizes sports as a unifying feature of campus life, exemplified most perhaps by its <em>thirteenth</em> straight Directors Cup capture. The fact that I had no idea what the Directors Cup is (and, was only slightly disappointed that it had nothing to do with film) should in no way diminish Williams’ achievement.</p>
<p>If Vanderbilt and Columbia are peer schools, then Columbia and Stanford must be peer schools. If Duke and UNC are peer schools, then Duke and Princeton are peer schools. You can either just accept that all of the top 50 or so schools in the country are excellent or you can break these institutions down into narrow tiers. However, you cannot separate HYPSM for the next 45 other schools in USNWR. That doesn’t even make sense. Columbia is much closer in quality to Stanford then Vanderbilt is to Columbia. The only major differences between Columbia and Stanford are the endowments per capita and fellowship production (Rhodes/Marshall).</p>
<p>Wake forest, duke, vanderbilt, unc, davidson</p>
<p>My school: UVA
Respect: Princeton, Swarthmore, Northwestern, Rice, uPenn.<br>
No respect: Duke, Harvard (their students at least)</p>
<p>school: stanford
respect: chicago, mit
lack of respect: penn, harvard, duke</p>
<p>School: Tufts</p>
<p>Respect: Chicago, Carleton, Middlebury, Swarthmore, William & Mary, Reed, Penn, Claremont McKenna, Emory</p>
<p>Just wondering, why do so many people have hard feelings or a lack of respect toward Penn?</p>
<p>School: Villanova U
Respect: Holy Cross, Georgetown
Disrespect: Boston College, Loyola Chicago</p>
<p>Why is there so much hate toward harvard?</p>
<p>Sent from my GT-I9000 using CC App</p>
<p>I attend Dartmouth quite obviously.
Respected Peers:- Stanford, Duke, Yale, Columbia (its a pity I wasn’t admitted to them)
Disrespect :- Penn CAS</p>
<p>I forgot to mention that I also have a great deal of respect for Pomona.</p>
<p>Boston College</p>
<p>Respect: Syracuse, Georgetown, Notre Dame, Tufts.</p>
<p>No Respect to Boston U, but that’s more out of our rivalry than personal really.</p>
<p>WUSTL <3</p>
<p>If I’m being perfectly honest, I think it’s really hard to disrespect a school. There’s always one redeeming quality of every school out there, even if you yourself would never attend it. That being said, here are some schools I really do respect:</p>
<p>Emory (while going south never appealed to me, one of my best friends is going there and it sounds like an awesome place)
UChicago (while definitely not my kind of place, I know people who go there and the whole second-coming of Hogwarts thing. Plus the kids there seem so non-pretentious)
UPenn (PENN IS A PEER OF WUSTL. My god, both my parents went to penn and they both really respect the school I’ve chosen to attend. But even though I would never go there if I could have even gotten in, it’s a cool place)
CMU (again, friends going there…not my kind of place again, but still has nice, non-pretentious people and really good academics)
Johns Hopkins (I don’t even know why…it just seems like a really cool place. Even if they did leave our athletic league, forcing the Nerdy Nine to become the Egghead Eight)</p>