To you, what's the bottom of the "elite" colleges?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:HYPS and MIT. Maybe UChicago and Duke. That's it.

Duke boosters are hilarious

The true elite is HYPSM

Next tier is Columbia, Caltech, Chicago

Then it is Penn, Duke, Northwestern, Dartmouth, Brown Cornell, Hopkins

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:HYPS and MIT. Maybe UChicago and Duke. That's it.

Duke boosters are hilarious

The true elite is HYPSM

Next tier is Columbia, Caltech, Chicago

Then it is Penn, Duke, Northwestern, Dartmouth, Brown Cornell, Hopkins

The true elite is HYPSM

Next tier is Columbia, UPenn, Caltech, Chicago, Duke

Then it is Northwestern, Dartmouth, Brown, Cornell, Hopkins

[Anonymous]

Yes, sir. Now that you’ve established your pecking order, what are you going to do with it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, sir. Now that you’ve established your pecking order, what are you going to do with it?

DP. What do you think? Start another ranking thread where the same people will argue their same arguments and each will walk away with their own smug answer. It’s DCUM!!!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Ivies, Duke, Chicago, MIT, Notre Dame, Stanford, Hopkins.

I have witnessed for the last ten years the absolute smartest over-achiever ambitious Catholic boys and girls go to Notre Dame. Top 5 overall students in their class at selective prep schools. Maybe its standards were weak 10 or 20 or 30 years ago, but these days it's only admitting brilliant kids in the very top of their class.

I personally do not consider Northwestern, Vanderbilt or Emory to be elite. And while I do genuinely respect Wash U, it has basically zero name rec. And Berkeley is a over-enrolled degree mill full of cutthroat strivers, it's only romanticized by alums and boomers who still think it's the 60s.

Why in the world would you include Notre Dame in this. Total joke

It’s Notre Dame mom crowd-sourcing ND approval again. Just ignore. She started another thread n the wonders of ND.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, sir. Now that you’ve established your pecking order, what are you going to do with it?

DP. What do you think? Start another ranking thread where the same people will argue their same arguments and each will walk away with their own smug answer. It’s DCUM!!!

The dumbs are going to dumb.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ivies, Duke, Chicago, MIT, Notre Dame, Stanford, Hopkins.

I have witnessed for the last ten years the absolute smartest over-achiever ambitious Catholic boys and girls go to Notre Dame. Top 5 overall students in their class at selective prep schools. Maybe its standards were weak 10 or 20 or 30 years ago, but these days it's only admitting brilliant kids in the very top of their class.

I personally do not consider Northwestern, Vanderbilt or Emory to be elite. And while I do genuinely respect Wash U, it has basically zero name rec. And Berkeley is a over-enrolled degree mill full of cutthroat strivers, it's only romanticized by alums and boomers who still think it's the 60s.

Some of you people are seriously dating yourself... Yes, these schools are now "elite" meaning that it is extremely difficult to get into the Top 20.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:HYPS and MIT. Maybe UChicago and Duke. That's it.

Duke boosters are hilarious

The true elite is HYPSM

Next tier is Columbia, Caltech, Chicago

Then it is Penn, Duke, Northwestern, Dartmouth, Brown Cornell, Hopkins

The true elite is HYPSM

Next tier is Columbia, UPenn, Caltech, Chicago, Duke

Then it is Northwestern, Dartmouth, Brown, Cornell, Hopkins

I think Duke needs to be dropped to the bottom tier

[Anonymous]

What list are you using?

UCLA is now #20 on US News - higher than Berkeley.

Georgetown is tied at #23 with Michigan.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:HYPS and MIT. Maybe UChicago and Duke. That's it.

Duke boosters are hilarious

The true elite is HYPSM

Next tier is Columbia, Caltech, Chicago

Then it is Penn, Duke, Northwestern, Dartmouth, Brown Cornell, Hopkins

The true elite is HYPSM

Next tier is Columbia, UPenn, Caltech, Chicago, Duke

Then it is Northwestern, Dartmouth, Brown, Cornell, Hopkins

So bottom of elite colleges are Duke, NWU, Dartmouth, Brown, Cornell and Hopkins

I think Duke needs to be dropped to the bottom tier

[Anonymous]

NVM I see you are pulling up the ghosts of 2017, and making Georgetown and Berkeley grads cringe. 😱

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:HYPSM and maybe Columbia if I'm having a good day.

+1. Only when I’m feeling extra generous like during the holidays.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:HYPSM and maybe Columbia if I'm having a good day.

+1. Only when I’m feeling extra generous like during the holidays.

Columbia puke

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:HYPS and MIT. Maybe UChicago and Duke. That's it.

Duke boosters are hilarious

The true elite is HYPSM

Next tier is Columbia, Caltech, Chicago

Then it is Penn, Duke, Northwestern, Dartmouth, Brown Cornell, Hopkins

+1

Stanford is #6 for various reasons - below Columbia, Harvard, MIT, and Yale. They are sports focused with 12% of their students being recruited athletes. Student athletes stats tend to be the lowest while taking up a huge amount of resources to make sure they graduate. That’s resource taken away from the rest of the school. It can only rank behind academic institutions such as P, C, H, Y, and M.

[Anonymous]

The ones I have to Google.