<p>@Miw140 </p>
<p>How does peer assessment indicate quality of undergraduate classroom experience more than class size, which you say does not “necessarily mean quality”?</p>
<p>And much has been written about the speciousness of the peer assessment score:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/08/19/rankings#sthash.JPCxP5W4.dpbs”>http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/08/19/rankings#sthash.JPCxP5W4.dpbs</a></p>
<p><a href=“http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/the-problem-with-the-us-news-college-rankings/2011/09/13/gIQAY5zPQK_blog.html”>http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/the-problem-with-the-us-news-college-rankings/2011/09/13/gIQAY5zPQK_blog.html</a></p>
<p>And certainly feel as you do about Michigan. Sadly, it’s the tone of “categorical, patent superiority” in discussions like this (as reflected in the Michigan boosters here) that raise folks’ hackles unnecessarily. </p>