<p>I put together a ranking based just on the peer assessments, i think its a little better than USNWR’s weird methods</p>
<li>Harvard
Princeton
Yale
MIT
Stanford</li>
<li>Berkeley</li>
<li>Cal Tech
Columbia</li>
<li>Duke
Penn
Cornell
JHU
Chicago
Michigan</li>
<li>Brown</li>
<li>Dartmouth
Northwestern</li>
<li>Carnegie Mellon
Virginia
UCLA</li>
<li>Rice
North Carolina
Wisconcin</li>
</ol>
<p>I agree. </p>
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<p>US New's peer assesment numbers?</p>
<p>Caltech seems a bit low and Wisconsin a bit high, imho.</p>
<p>Yea wisconsin is a community college, lol.</p>
<p>But drew00, should we make a formula that fits our liking of order? Should we develop a formula that keeps other things at the forefront? A list like this, like US News, is weighing factors a certain way and seeing the results. You think Caltech should be higher, Wisconsin lower- becaues you diesagree with the results, you disagree with the formula. But should the formulas merely reflect perceived notions? Perhaps they should. <em>shrug</em></p>
<p>UT-Austin not in there??</p>