<p>The whole peer assessment thing is pretty suspect to me, I mean obviously there are more liberal arts schools in the NE so their presidents know more about other NE colleges and not as much about ones about their area and rate those generally higher. I mean Pomona and Harvey Mudd have average SATs over 100 points higher than Midd…and Pomona also had an 18.4% acceptance rate last year, over $1 billion endowment, resources galore and was founded before Stanford. It seems pretty weird that no one will challenge AWS as the leaders in the liberal arts even when some stats seem to do so, maybe I’m missing something here though…</p>