| iongbowmen: no need to go into detail here, but research methodologies used by thes and arwu rankings were very different. thes heavily weighted by peer assessments dominated by europeans/australians/asians while arwu rankings based on nobel prizes/papers/citations. both serve different purposes. again, if we're to use the available rankings to consolidate into one, times good uni guide/uswr rankings, whose methodologies more comparable and purpose directly targeted at uk/us, would serve better. but that's not the objective anyways. this thread leaves it up to cc posters' opinion, no rankings needed thouh.
op does not have any self-motive and is not fishing out anything. he and his son are finished n done with the whole col apps process. s accepted to imperial, ucl, edinburgh, warwick and bristol in uk and to u michigan, cmu, cornell and u penn in us. he's happily looking forward to upenn this fall. this thread is meant for those int'l students searching for good us and uk schools and now is the time to start the process. |