What are the top 10 universities in the USA?

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Anonymous wrote:1. Harvard
2. Yale
3. Stanford
4. Columbia
5. Princeton
6. U. Pennsylvania
7. U. Chicago
8. Northwestern
9. Duke
10. Johns Hopkins

+1. I like the exclusion of both MIT and Caltech because including them would be like comparing apples and oranges.

Bout time Columbia is placed above Princeton. Only the HYP acronym, rooted in century-old racism and elitism, is keeping Princeton ahead of Columbia.

Yes, although MIT is much, much closer to being a more well-rounded university like the others listed here than Caltech is, both those schools are just a different animal, in my opinion. They are undoubtedly the top tier of their class (technical institutions), arguably in the whole world, but hard to compare to the rest.

Please - many students at HYP and all the rest of the above list would be eaten alive at MIT. sorry.

CalState and MIT are more stats oriented, more STEM-focused than Ivies. They are one-trick ponies. You pretty much have to be good in your chosen field. CalState and MIT wouldn't do as well under the holistic evaluation. They get eaten alive at Ivies.

What is calstate?

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"What are the top 10 universities in the USA from the perspective of people who are insecure and focused on "status"?

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Chicago and non Wharton penn folks are most insecure

Wrong.
Wharton folks are more insecure and bring up the separate division things all the time.

Need to also mention the Yale and Princeton folks who dogmatically chant HYP to keep Columbia away, while Harvard folks know better than to lurk around these college forums.

Harvard and perhaps Stanford and MIT are about the only ones that can be secure in their status. Everyone else is jostling out of insecurity.

Doubt it. Harvard has to deal with the fact that its undergraduate education is no longer considered the best in the country.

Princeton has been number 1 in USNWR for about 12 straight years and it and cross-admits still heavily favor Harvard. I don't think Harvard has ever been known as particularly undergraduate focused, and that is the case for many of the top USNWR schools. People want to go there because of the prestige.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The full title of this thread:

"What are the top 10 universities in the USA from the perspective of people who are insecure and focused on "status"?

[phone]

Chicago and non Wharton penn folks are most insecure

Wrong.
Wharton folks are more insecure and bring up the separate division things all the time.

Need to also mention the Yale and Princeton folks who dogmatically chant HYP to keep Columbia away, while Harvard folks know better than to lurk around these college forums.

Harvard and perhaps Stanford and MIT are about the only ones that can be secure in their status. Everyone else is jostling out of insecurity.

Doubt it. Harvard has to deal with the fact that its undergraduate education is no longer considered the best in the country.

Princeton has been number 1 in USNWR for about 12 straight years and it and cross-admits still heavily favor Harvard. I don't think Harvard has ever been known as particularly undergraduate focused, and that is the case for many of the top USNWR schools. People want to go there because of the prestige.

If not for its SPIA and amazing PhD programs, I think Princeton, along with Brown and Dartmouth, should be relegated to “oversized LAC”. The latter two i still find myself wondering why they’re thought of more as universities than as LACs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1. Harvard
2. Yale
3. Stanford
4. Columbia
5. Princeton
6. U. Pennsylvania
7. U. Chicago
8. Northwestern
9. Duke
10. Johns Hopkins

This is the list I agree with the most, but I would just place MIT side by side with Harvard.

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Anonymous wrote:If not for its SPIA and amazing PhD programs, I think Princeton, along with Brown and Dartmouth, should be relegated to “oversized LAC”. The latter two i still find myself wondering why they’re thought of more as universities than as LACs.

I know you are the same person posting this ridiculous troll again and again. And now you include Princeton in it.

You do not understand what an LAC is nor what a university is. Even though it has been explained to you in these forums.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:1. Harvard
2. Yale
3. Stanford
4. Columbia
5. Princeton
6. U. Pennsylvania
7. U. Chicago
8. Northwestern
9. Duke
10. Johns Hopkins

This is the list I agree with the most, but I would just place MIT side by side with Harvard.

IMO a lot of kids at Harvard would struggle at MIT and I think that the MIT students would have a better shot at succeeding at Harvard.

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Anonymous wrote:1. Harvard
2. Yale
3. Stanford
4. Columbia
5. Princeton
6. U. Pennsylvania
7. U. Chicago
8. Northwestern
9. Duke
10. Johns Hopkins

This is the list I agree with the most, but I would just place MIT side by side with Harvard.

IMO a lot of kids at Harvard would struggle at MIT and I think that the MIT students would have a better shot at succeeding at Harvard.

A lot of kids at MIT struggle at MIT.

[Anonymous]

STEM is not end all be all.

[Anonymous]

Cornell is ranked 18. It is not a top 10 school.

[Anonymous]

1. MIT
2. Stanford
3. Harvard
4. Princeton
5. Yale
6. Columbia
7. UPenn
8. Caltech
9. UChicago
10. Duke

[Anonymous]

My take:

1. Harvard
2. Stanford
3. MIT
4. Yale
5. Columbia
6. Princeton
7. Caltech
8. UPenn
9. UChicago
10. Duke

[Anonymous]

1. Harvard
2. Stanford
3. Columbia
4. UPenn
5. MIT
6. Caltech
7. Yale
8. Princeton
9. UChicago
10 UC Berkeley

[Anonymous]

1. Harvard / MIT
3. Stanford / Yale
5. Princeton
6. Columbia
7. Penn
8. Chicago
9. Northwestern
10. Duke

[Anonymous]

What’s the question, the school or the students?

[Anonymous]

Oh come on; revealed preference shows massive heterogeneity in rankings across students. Without estimates of standard errors - this is just BS.

Also, nearly every school here is good.