Who Does Your College Think Its Peers Are?

College Search & Lists
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<p>Interactive mapping from [The</a> Chronicle](<a href=“http://chronicle.com/article/Peers-Interactive-Data/134262/]The”>http://chronicle.com/article/Peers-Interactive-Data/134262/).</p>

<p>This may have been discussed before, but I found some of the lists intriguing. </p>

<p>What’s up with Rochester?</p>

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<p>Princeton, Columbia, and Duke are just too good for anybody.</p>

<p>What do you mean what’s up with Rochester?</p>

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<p>Dartmouth and Brown included it in the same breath as UChicago, Stanford, and Williams.</p>

<p>Rochester is a very strong school, granted, but I think of it more as Carnegie Mellon’s pretty little sister than the high-rolling badboy its peer list makes it out to be. I just don’t see Rochester saddling up with Stanford, Harvard, and Yale. Maybe Duke, but not Rochester. </p>

<p>I would say, hesitantly, that Rochester matches up well with Case Western, although their acceptance rates are vastly different. </p>

<p>Also, I find it humorous that Harvard lists its peers as Yale, Princeton, and Stanford… but not MIT. :)</p>

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<p>The best part is the schools that University of Phoenix, Jersey lists as its peers… (Dartmouth, Middlebury, and Wellesley really??)</p>

<p>Rice apparently is a peer of: Caltech, Harvey Mudd, JHU, Northwestern, and WUSTL</p>

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<p>Well, with graduation rates of 6-20%, we can only assume that all those U of P students are disappearing to Wellesley and Middlebury. ;)</p>

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<p>Seems reasonable, if those are its aspirant schools. </p>

<p>I feel bad for Tufts. The only school that listed it as a buddy was Boston College. It gets lonely up in the clouds. :(</p>

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<p>They listed Rice as their peer :)</p>

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<p>Georgetown looks a little snooty and American/GW are hilarious including it and other schools as their peers :P</p>

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<p>Junior mint…the acceptance gap is closing a bit between the two schools- for 2013 the overall acceptance rate was UR 31%, Case 39%. I think Case is becoming a bit more recognized and UR has been a great school, albeit a bit of a well kept secret for a long time.</p>

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<p>I find it funny that Gtown ignored its most obvious cross-admit rivals. (UVa, Notre Dame, Vanderbilt, Emory, even Duke.)</p>

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<p>Thank you for clarifying! Case is really improving then. :)</p>

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<p>Case is a better school than its acceptance rate indicates, because its applicant pool is “self-selecting” - namely mostly STEM oriented students that know about it. Many STEM schools have this issue, though obviously not the most famous ones like MIT. Many women’s colleges also have high acceptance rates, that don’t indicate how selective they really are.</p>

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<p>Thank you for the comment, Beantown. Do you think the opposite is also true - schools being worse than their selectivity suggests? Pitzer, for example, has a surprisingly low acceptance rate.</p>

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<p>I would say Wake’s looks pretty accurate.</p>

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<p>I don’t know about that…
I just know that you just really need to look beyond the acceptance rate by looking at the average GPA,GPA breakdown, mid-range SAT/ACT and class rank info. Common Data Sets often provide good details.</p>