What are Stanford's Peer Schools?

warblersrule
Sun, 27 May 2007 11:49:31 +0000

dx98:

for all of you who think duke is stanford’s peer -Duke’s OWN STUDENT NEWSPAPER shows that duke is still a cut below HYPSM.

1. I remain unconvinced that quality of students is representative of the quality of education. There was a rather interesting thread about this, however. HYPSM don’t have the largest raw numbers of high scoring students.

http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=149880


This thread is about the schools “most comparable to Stanford.” Duke is the closest match to Stanford in terms of student life, climate, athletics, etc. If you choose to believe that a gap in prestige (apparently as large as the Grand Canyon!) will make more of a difference to a student than balmy weather vs. three feet of snow, I have to question your reasoning.