<p>Institutions’ self-identified peers, or why the rants of certain posters are irrelevant and no longer worthy of comment. The statistics being offered as “evidence” are meaningless. What matters is which schools the universities themselves self-identify as their peers. Discussions of superiority? OVER.</p>
<p>Institutions that have formally and officially identified Chicago as a peer school include, among others: Yale (!), CalTech (!), Penn, Hopkins, Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth, NU…</p>
<p>Institutions that Chicago has formally and officially identified as peer schools include, among others: all the Ivies except Dartmouth (!), Stanford, NU, and several others, but NOT Duke.</p>
<p>Institutions that have formally and officially designated Columbia University as a peer school include, among others: Stanford (well, well goldenboy), Harvard, Yale, Princeton, the other Ivies, Chicago, Hopkins…</p>
<p>Institutions that Columbia has identified as peer schools? Well, haven’t found that yet!</p>
<p>To Poplicola: I can never, ever overestimate the profound impact that the University of Chicago has had on my life. I am forever grateful for the extraordinary, life-changing undergraduate education I received there. It was the BEST school for me.</p>