What schools are UC Berkeley's peers?

Sam_Lee
Mon, 20 Jun 2005 03:00:04 +0000

Gentle,

You seem to have a rather distorted view of Northwestern’s reputation. It’s not Stanford but it’s no Pepperdine either. Northwestern’s peer assessment score is a respectable 4.4. If I am not mistaken, UCLA’s is 4.3. Pepperdine’s is probably like 2.9 though I don’t know what it is exactly. Northwestern has top-5 journalism, communication, and business schools, top-10 music & law schools, a top 20 med school, and 4 top-10 engineering departments…etc. In terms of students’ caliber:

Northwestern’s stats: SAT verbal scores over 700 51%, SAT math scores over 700 63%, ACT scores over 30 68%

Pepperdine’s stats: SAT verbal scores over 700 10%, SAT math scores over 700 13%, ACT scores over 30 24%

(For your reference: Stanford’s stats: SAT verbal scores over 700 70%, SAT math scores over 700 74%, ACT scores over 30 72%

Berkeley’s stats: SAT verbal scores over 700 30%, SAT math scores over 700 47%, ACT scores over 30 N/R)

Northwestern’s students are of noticeably higher caliber than Pepperdine’s. I really don’t understand your insistence of putting the two the same.