<p>^^ his study defeats the point of a peer assessment score – it’s basically just a replication of US News. It has questionable factors such as few NRC rankings taken into account, financial rank, etc. And some of the conclusions are rather ridiculous – UVA and UCLA > Chicago? That’s definitely not how the peers view them. And UCSF shouldn’t be in there if this is peer assessment of undergrad.</p>
<p>Everyone knows Berkeley’s academic caliber, which is probably why its peers–including Stanford–rate it as highly as they do.</p>
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<p>I tend not to rank schools precisely, but put them into tiers.</p>