What are Stanford's Peer Schools?

Sam_Lee
Thu, 21 Jun 2007 22:00:57 +0000

Those stats are for just ONE year. If I remember correctly, in the past, Stanford had higher test scores than Duke until maybe the last couple years. But these days, we have so many kids with high scores and a lot of HYPSM rejects score just as high on SAT/ACT as (or even higher than) the admits do. They fill the spots of other colleges; so I am not at all surprised that Duke’s scores are slightly higher for last year. Even Northwestern’s ACT is higher than Stanford’s (29-33). WashU has higher numbers too (though their numbers need some validation and I have found that they superscore ACT). Anyway, Duke does have comparable students in terms of average IQ (if SAT is a good measure of IQ). But that doesn’t mean Duke is as difficult to get in as Stanford. In terms of selectivity, Stanford’s peers are HYP.