USNWR 2009: Looking at the Top Strata VII (Undergraduate Peer Assessment)

College Search & Selection
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<p>The publication of the 2009 USNWR College Rankings provides an opportunity to compare schools based on a wide variety of data points. In this and in other threads, I urge the reader to think less about the absolute rankings and more about the nature and value-added of the data point being discussed.</p>

<li>Harvard 4.9</li>
<li>Stanford 4.9</li>
<li>MIT 4.9</li>
<li>Princeton 4.8</li>
<li>Yale 4.8</li>
<li>Berkeley 4.7</li>
<li>Caltech 4.6</li>
<li>Chicago 4.6</li>
<li>Cornell 4.5</li>
<li>Columbia 4.5</li>
<li>Johns Hopkins 4.5</li>
<li>Penn 4.5</li>
<li>Duke 4.4</li>
<li>Michigan 4.4</li>
<li>Brown 4.3</li>
<li>Dartmouth 4.3</li>
<li>Northwestern 4.3</li>
<li>Virginia 4.3</li>
<li>UCLA 4.2</li>
<li>WUSTL 4.1</li>
<li>Carnegie Mellon 4.1</li>
<li>U North Carolina 4.1</li>
<li>Wisconsin 4.1</li>
<li>Rice 4.0</li>
<li>Georgetown 4.0</li>
<li>Georgia Tech 4.0</li>
<li>Illinois 4.0</li>
<li>Texas 4.0</li>
<li>Vanderbilt 4.0</li>
<li>Emory 3.9</li>
<li>Notre Dame 3.9</li>
<li>USC: 3.9</li>
<li>Washington: 3.9</li>
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<p>^courtesy of UCBChemEGrad</p>

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<p>keefer,
What a pleasure to see someone else do a little work once in a while. Thanks. :) BTW, when will I be receiving my royalty check? :) :) </p>

<p>Anyway, I now have the data for all of the colleges ranked in the USNWR Top 50 National Universities and USNWR Top 25 LACs. To assist keefer on his thread, I add the following information:</p>

<p>Rank , PA Score , School</p>

<p>1 , 4.9 , Harvard
1 , 4.9 , MIT
1 , 4.9 , Stanford
4 , 4.8 , Princeton
4 , 4.8 , Yale
6 , 4.7 , UC Berkeley
7 , 4.6 , Caltech
7 , 4.6 , U Chicago
9 , 4.5 , U Penn
9 , 4.5 , Columbia
9 , 4.5 , Cornell
9 , 4.5 , Johns Hopkins
13 , 4.4 , Duke
13 , 4.4 , U Michigan
15 , 4.3 , Dartmouth
15 , 4.3 , Northwestern
15 , 4.3 , Brown
15 , 4.3 , U Virginia
19 , 4.2 , UCLA
20 , 4.1 , Wash U
20 , 4.1 , Carnegie Mellon
20 , 4.1 , U North Carolina
20 , 4.1 , U Wisconsin
24 , 4 , Rice
24 , 4 , Vanderbilt
24 , 4 , Georgetown
24 , 4 , Georgia Tech
24 , 4 , U Illinois
24 , 4 , U Texas
30 , 3.9 , Emory
30 , 3.9 , Notre Dame
30 , 3.9 , USC
30 , 3.9 , U Washington
34 , 3.8 , NYU
34 , 3.8 , UCSD
34 , 3.8 , UC Davis
37 , 3.7 , W&M
37 , 3.7 , Penn State
39 , 3.6 , Tufts
39 , 3.6 , U Florida
41 , 3.5 , Wake Forest
41 , 3.5 , Brandeis
41 , 3.5 , Boston Coll
41 , 3.5 , Rensselaer
41 , 3.5 , UC Irvine
41 , 3.5 , UC Santa Barbara
47 , 3.4 , U Rochester
47 , 3.4 , Case Western
49 , 3.3 , Tulane
50 , 3.2 , Lehigh</p>

<p>Rank , PA Score , School</p>

<p>1 , 4.7 , Amherst
2 , 4.6 , Williams
2 , 4.6 , Swarthmore
4 , 4.4 , Wellesley
5 , 4.3 , Bowdoin
5 , 4.3 , Carleton
5 , 4.3 , Grinnell
8 , 4.2 , Middlebury
8 , 4.2 , Pomona
8 , 4.2 , Davidson
8 , 4.2 , Vassar
8 , 4.2 , Wesleyan
8 , 4.2 , Smith
14 , 4.1 , Haverford
14 , 4.1 , Harvey Mudd
14 , 4.1 , Oberlin
17 , 4 , Claremont McK
17 , 4 , US Naval Acad
17 , 4 , Bryn Mawr
17 , 4 , Macalester
21 , 3.9 , US Military Acad
21 , 3.9 , Colgate
21 , 3.9 , Colby
21 , 3.9 , Bates
25 , 3.8 , W&L
26 , 3.6 , Hamilton</p>

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<p>^ Ahhhh! PA, my old friend!...:D</p>

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<p>Hawkette had to add schools (this time up to 50) to get the so called "top 25" included in the top PA rankings. How convenient. I see at least a dozen schools ranked below Michigan, that are placed higher in the overall standings, in this very important rating.</p>

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<p>Rjko,
You have a great ability to see a conspiracy in everything. :rolleyes: </p>

<p>Heck, one of the main reasons that I expanded my data presentation to include colleges on the 2nd page of the USNWR presentation (they only put 25 colleges on a page at a time) was due to your comment on 9/17 in another thread complaining about this.</p>

<p>“Funny how Hawkette likes to look at the top 30 schools when it comes to football but only goes looking to the top 25 for anything academically related. Could it be that Michigan is rated number 26 now in USNWR and is playing lousy football this year?”</p>

<p>So, in response to your wish, I have gathered the material for the next group of colleges and included them in my most recent thread on the USNWR data (USNWR Thread VI about Alumni Giving) As seen above, I have also included them here in keefer’s USNWR Thread VII about Peer Assessment scoring. </p>

<p>Look for U Michigan and the other schools ranked 26-50 to be included in future iterations of this series of threads that I am creating on various characteristics of colleges. Hopefully, you and U Michigan won’t feel slighted any more (though somehow I expect you will find a way).</p>

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<p>We'll see. ;-)</p>

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<p>I saw your "Top Strata Part I-VI" and I just couldn't help myself... considering that PA is the largest single component of the usnews ranking, just wanted to give it a "part 7" before you forget about it completely...</p>

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13. Duke 4.4

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<p>Oh, no!!! Duke isn't in the top 10...</p>

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<p>I guarantee you hawkette did not forget about PA. She just inadvertently forgot to include it. I wonder why? Oh, see comment by k&s above. :-)</p>