What are the “top 10” schools?
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Anonymous
| And curious if there is a subset that there are no disagreements about? |
Anonymous
| USNWR is your friend. |
Anonymous
Yep. Right, wrong or indifferent, USNWR is the general guide here. |
Anonymous
Are you serious? No. People disagree about every list and subset. |
Anonymous
| According to US News there are 11 top 10 schools. Who gets kicked out: Brown, John Hopkins, or Northwestern? |
Anonymous
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Harvard
Yale Stanford Princeton MIT UChicago Columbia Penn Northwestern Duke |
Anonymous
| To answer your subset question, top 5 are widely agreed upon (though not the order) but after that there is much disagreement. Top 5 are pretty broadly agreed to by HYPSM - Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Princeton, MIT. |
Anonymous
Realistically there are about 12-15 schools that could realistically be considered "top 10" caliber, but let's be real. Brown is not a serious university. |
Anonymous
Replace UChicago with Caltech and this is reasonable |
Anonymous
Agreed, Brown does not have any top academic departments. Just seems like a school to hang out at. |
Anonymous
| Brown has some world class departments, and is generally good across the board in most. I am so puzzled by DCUM. I think many people posting here have lost their minds with jealousy. |
Anonymous
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Anonymous
| Penn is way better than Columbia. Even USNW has Penn at 6 while Columbia is at 12. |
Anonymous
If the list were "Top 10 STEM schools" then absolutely! But without a law school or a medical school Caltech just don't belong on this generalist ranking. |