What are the “top 10” schools?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:According to US News there are 11 top 10 schools. Who gets kicked out: Brown, John Hopkins, or Northwestern?

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.

Agreed, Brown does not have any top academic departments. Just seems like a school to hang out at.

Oh jeezus h Brown has plenty of top departments, applied math for starters, and a top faculty including a Nobel winner in physics.

What’s with people here? Are you idiots or trolls?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Harvard
Yale
Stanford
Princeton
MIT
UChicago
Columbia
Penn
Northwestern
Duke

Replace UChicago with Caltech and this is reasonable

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.

If law and med schools are necessary then we need to pull Princeton off the list as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Harvard
Yale
Stanford
Princeton
MIT
UChicago
Columbia
Penn
Northwestern
Duke

The above is a reasonable list, but I would divide it to top 5 and next 5;

Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, & MIT

Chicago, Penn, Duke, Northwestern, & Columbia.

The next 10 schools are more debatable & interesting and might include a few LACs (Williams, Amherst, etc.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Harvard
Yale
Stanford
Princeton
MIT
UChicago
Columbia
Penn
Northwestern
Duke

Replace UChicago with Caltech and this is reasonable

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.

If law and med schools are necessary then we need to pull Princeton off the list as well.

Agreed. CalTech and Princeton are getting credit for being tops in certain areas - kind of like Hopkins. Depending on the program they are the very best schools to attend. But to be called top 10 across the board is a stretch.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Harvard
Yale
Stanford
Princeton
MIT
UChicago
Columbia
Penn
Northwestern
Duke

Replace UChicago with Caltech and this is reasonable

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.

I thought that people were ranking undergrad programs when they talked about top 10. The list of top law schools or top med schools or top PhD programs in X field would look very different.

[Anonymous]

Hopkins is better at more things then Northwestern. It just is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:According to US News there are 11 top 10 schools. Who gets kicked out: Brown, John Hopkins, or Northwestern?

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.

Agreed, Brown does not have any top academic departments. Just seems like a school to hang out at.

Oh jeezus h Brown has plenty of top departments, applied math for starters, and a top faculty including a Nobel winner in physics.

What’s with people here? Are you idiots or trolls?

Brown does have a great applied math department, but it simply doesn't have the same academic strengths across the board or even really any field-defining departments in the way some of these other schools do. Its most notable feature is that it's in the Ivy League coupled with the fact that prospective undergrads want to go there because of its open curriculum.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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. [/quote

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:According to US News there are 11 top 10 schools. Who gets kicked out: Brown, John Hopkins, or Northwestern?

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.

Agreed, Brown does not have any top academic departments. Just seems like a school to hang out at.

Oh jeezus h Brown has plenty of top departments, applied math for starters, and a top faculty including a Nobel winner in physics.

What’s with people here? Are you idiots or trolls?

Brown does have a great applied math department, but it simply doesn't have the same academic strengths across the board or even really any field-defining departments in the way some of these other schools do. Its most notable feature is that it's in the Ivy League coupled with the fact that prospective undergrads want to go there because of its open curriculum.

Great so you’ve gone from they don’t have any top programs to they have only a few top programs and I’m sure if I list other programs they have that are highly regarded you’ll change your tune again.

I’m at the point here where I think nobody should read any of these threads at all because they’re all full of trolls and bullshit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:According to US News there are 11 top 10 schools. Who gets kicked out: Brown, John Hopkins, or Northwestern?

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.

Agreed, Brown does not have any top academic departments. Just seems like a school to hang out at.

Oh jeezus h Brown has plenty of top departments, applied math for starters, and a top faculty including a Nobel winner in physics.

What’s with people here? Are you idiots or trolls?

Brown does have a great applied math department, but it simply doesn't have the same academic strengths across the board or even really any field-defining departments in the way some of these other schools do. Its most notable feature is that it's in the Ivy League coupled with the fact that prospective undergrads want to go there because of its open curriculum.

Great so you’ve gone from they don’t have any top programs to they have only a few top programs and I’m sure if I list other programs they have that are highly regarded you’ll change your tune again.

I’m at the point here where I think nobody should read any of these threads at all because they’re all full of trolls and bullshit.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

Ignore. Their kids couldn’t get in anyways.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:According to US News there are 11 top 10 schools. Who gets kicked out: Brown, John Hopkins, or Northwestern?

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.

Agreed, Brown does not have any top academic departments. Just seems like a school to hang out at.

Please tell us about all the top ten departments at Duke.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:According to US News there are 11 top 10 schools. Who gets kicked out: Brown, John Hopkins, or Northwestern?

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.

Agreed, Brown does not have any top academic departments. Just seems like a school to hang out at.

Please tell us about all the top ten departments at Duke.

Biomedical engineering for starters. Absolutely top-notch along with MIT, Hopkins and a few others. A bunch of programs in the school of public policy are top 10 as well (and at least one or two others in the engineering school).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:According to US News there are 11 top 10 schools. Who gets kicked out: Brown, John Hopkins, or Northwestern?

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.

Agreed, Brown does not have any top academic departments. Just seems like a school to hang out at.

Please tell us about all the top ten departments at Duke.

Biomedical engineering for starters. Absolutely top-notch along with MIT, Hopkins and a few others. A bunch of programs in the school of public policy are top 10 as well (and at least one or two others in the engineering school).

Duke's law school and medical school are also solidly top 10. Duke's business school (Fuqua) is considered just outside the top 10. Having 2/3 of the key three professional programs ranked as top 10 in their respective fields isn't so bad, especially since Princeton doesn't have any professional schools, while MIT doesn't have a medical school or a law school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:According to US News there are 11 top 10 schools. Who gets kicked out: Brown, John Hopkins, or Northwestern?

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.

Agreed, Brown does not have any top academic departments. Just seems like a school to hang out at.

Please tell us about all the top ten departments at Duke.

Biomedical engineering for starters. Absolutely top-notch along with MIT, Hopkins and a few others. A bunch of programs in the school of public policy are top 10 as well (and at least one or two others in the engineering school).

Duke's law school and medical school are also solidly top 10. Duke's business school (Fuqua) is considered just outside the top 10. Having 2/3 of the key three professional programs ranked as top 10 in their respective fields isn't so bad, especially since Princeton doesn't have any professional schools, while MIT doesn't have a medical school or a law school.

PP who posted about Duke. I left out their professional programs (and many of the basic science departments in the medical school).