What are Stanford's Peer Schools?

Giantredlobster
Sun, 27 May 2007 17:33:13 +0000

There is a certain threshold you cross when all the schools are just outstanding institutions. You can use ratings to argue, primary sources from the schools them selves. But in the end of the day someone will pick Columbia over Stanford for whatever reason, or U Chicago because they like the cold… This thread has reached 12 pages and this argument hasn’t really gotten anywhere.

When you define your peers you are generally referring to your class mates. And all the schools in the top tier are peers. Obviously there are different shades of gray, but what does it really matter. If I go to Duke am I really inferior to a Stanford or a Yale student.

I will end in a little story.
A teacher places a ball in the middle of a classroom and has 2 kids look at the ball from opposite ends of the room. One says the ball is white while the other says the ball is black. They argue on and on (equivalent of 12 pages on CC) finally they go up to the ball and see one side is black and the other side was white. They were both right.