<p>Nobody seems to like the ranking that don’t have their schools of choice ranked near the top. Hmm, very telling. So emoryg08, are you saying that if brown, dartmouth and penn were ranked closer to where you think they should be that these rankings would be just fine? Or what if emory was ranked 1st, would you still be complaining about how bad these rankings are? And someone said that peer assessment only works when talking about grad schools. First, why? I still don’t understand that logic. Second, peer assessment is basically a measure of prestige among academia. Someone working at harvard is not going to know exactly how good the departments at stanford are, he or she will rely on what they Do know, mixed with their general perception of how good the school or program is. Anyway, there’s another little ranking that just came out last week that seems to put quite a bit of weight on peer assessment, so why not disavow those rankings as well?</p>