UC vs IVY LEAGUE

SnuggleMonster
Thu, 25 May 2006 14:26:25 +0000

" strongly suspect (and I’m sure you’ll disagree) that the peer review, though one of the best metrics for measuring a school’s quality, is largely dependent on graduate program quality."

If that’s true, then you are basically saying that those people who take part in the peer review are idiots. They are idiots because 1) they can’t read, as I’m sure that the rubric they use to evaltuate schools states that they are filling out a review for the UG rankings. Or 2) they are idiots because they cant tell the difference between UG and Grad school. They can’t wrap their heads around the idea that there are two parts to a school, so they simply grade the school on the quality of their grad programs. I choose to put more faith into the many Phds who assess these schools.

“why do Cal students seem to have a harder time getting into top grad programs than their Ivy equivalents?”

I don’t know, but my guess would be that you are baseing this statement on percentages, which hurts a big school like Cal because, as I’ve said, our bottom 20 percent of students are not as strong as the bottom 20th of our peer schools. That said, I believe that Cal undergrads produce more Phds than any other school in the country, even if they don’t send as many kids, percentage wise, to grad school.