Tom Campbell wants LA and Berkeley to cost as much as Stanford

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Surveying more people is not necessarily a good solution. If most (or even some) of the survey results are garbage, the collective result will still be garbage at worst and questionable at best. </p>

<p>What’s worrisome about the results coming out of Berkeley, Florida, Wisconsin, et al is that those are top schools. The administrators and faculty at those schools are far more likely to be familiar with their colleagues and practices at peer institutions. Quite frankly, I would expect an administrator at Wisconsin to be much more conversant with Michigan than someone from, say, Arkansas State…yet it was the former institution that ranked Michigan the lowest.</p>

<p>That’s not to say I don’t like the peer assessment results. With minor adjustments, I would mostly agree. I still don’t like or trust the methodology, however.</p>

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<p>IB the University of Michigan and the University of Virginia have yield in the mid 30s for OOS which is comparable to many top privates. Berkeley has never been seen as a college that wants OOS students and many high school students know that…I did. Berkeley is easily comparable to those two universities.I believe Berkeley will eventually increase its yield once it starts admitting more OOS. RML I have never had issues speaking to professors, most are dying for students to come in and talk it seems. Yet many Berkeley students, myself included, are too lazy to go to office hours for many classes.</p>