When people refer to top 20 and top 25 schools what are they?

[Anonymous]

The schools that person considers top 20.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These are the 30 universities that make up the top 20

MIT
Stanford
Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Penn
Duke
Northwestern
Cornell
Vanderbilt
Dartmouth
Chicago
Rice
CalTech
Brown
Columbia
Johns Hopkins
Notre Dame
Michigan
Berkeley
Georgetown
UVA
UCLA
Emory
Texas
Carnegie Mellon
WashU
USC
NYU
Georgia Tech

Some people also include LACs and service academies. Those would include

West Point
Annapolis
Williams
Pomona
Amherst
Swarthmore
Harvey Mudd
Bowdoin
Claremont McKenna
Air Force

Collectively, these are the 40 colleges that constitute the top 20

That is the answer. There is no such thing as top 20. lots more schools are the same. Those 40 are about right.
40 for top 20. Very DCUM.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is asked over and over every week.
Ivy+ has a fairly consistent definition based on studies using that term and defining it as The 8 ivies plusMIT Stanford Duke Uchicago. Most people would add the perennial T10 schools Caltech, Northwestern, Hopkins. Thats the T-15. After that using traditional strength of student body ranking the rest of the T25 are:
UCB, WashU, Rice, Georgetown, Notre Dame, Vanderbilt, CMU, UCLA, Mich, UVa, ordered variously based on personal preference and bias but basically everyone agrees these are the 16-25 group of schools.

This. T15 and T25. Slicing to T20 vs 25 does not make sense because they aren’t too different