Overall Tiers of the Top Schools

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Everyone’s kicking their feet, but this is pretty accurate and they describe why things are being ranked how they’re ranked. I mostly agree with this OP!

-except, you probably ARE the OP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everyone’s kicking their feet, but this is pretty accurate and they describe why things are being ranked how they’re ranked. I mostly agree with this OP!

-except, you probably ARE the OP.

Ok. I'm not here to play detective with a mom who wants to just complain.

[Anonymous]

Accurate

[Anonymous]

Vanderbilt and Rice need to move up. Rice is basically Dartmouth but in Texas

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Vanderbilt and Rice need to move up. Rice is basically Dartmouth but in Texas

So rice is nothing like Dartmouth.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The A+ tier failed to include UVA.

UVA is on the B list. hopefully

[Anonymous]

Northwestern is severly overated. It has no. 1 journalism for sure. Everything else at NU is not top ranked (they are good, just not top).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Vanderbilt and Rice need to move up. Rice is basically Dartmouth but in Texas

So rice is nothing like Dartmouth.

Rice is a bit of a unicorn. Small school and focused on undergraduate eduction - like Dartmouth. But they are very good at big school things like engineering and pre-med. Which is very unusual.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Vanderbilt and Rice need to move up. Rice is basically Dartmouth but in Texas

So rice is nothing like Dartmouth.

Rice is a bit of a unicorn. Small school and focused on undergraduate eduction - like Dartmouth. But they are very good at big school things like engineering and pre-med. Which is very unusual.

They just have money and spend it.
Also big schools are not known to be better at Pre-med services; the opposite is actually true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Vanderbilt and Rice need to move up. Rice is basically Dartmouth but in Texas

So rice is nothing like Dartmouth.

Rice is a bit of a unicorn. Small school and focused on undergraduate eduction - like Dartmouth. But they are very good at big school things like engineering and pre-med. Which is very unusual.

Sounds like every medium sized school. Washu is the same.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Northwestern is severly overated. It has no. 1 journalism for sure. Everything else at NU is not top ranked (they are good, just not top).

Not true, Northwestern is very good for things like economics, mechanical engineering, etc.

[Anonymous]

Brown is the most overrated school ever. Are they actually good at anything?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Vanderbilt and Rice need to move up. Rice is basically Dartmouth but in Texas

So rice is nothing like Dartmouth.

Rice is a bit of a unicorn. Small school and focused on undergraduate eduction - like Dartmouth. But they are very good at big school things like engineering and pre-med. Which is very unusual.

Rice is not that small any more. Currently 1200 per year, and they are increasing the capacity by 30% in the next couple of years. It's becoming a mid-size R1 university, slightly smaller than Chicago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Northwestern is severly overated. It has no. 1 journalism for sure. Everything else at NU is not top ranked (they are good, just not top).

Not true, Northwestern is very good for things like economics, mechanical engineering, etc.

Sure. They are good, or very good, but not top. Chicago at least has Econ as the talking point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Northwestern is severly overated. It has no. 1 journalism for sure. Everything else at NU is not top ranked (they are good, just not top).

Not true, Northwestern is very good for things like economics, mechanical engineering, etc.

Sure. They are good, or very good, but not top. Chicago at least has Econ as the talking point.

Yea but Northwestern is still a T10 econ program by most measures. If that's your bar, what are Brown and Dartmouth good at? What about Vanderbilt?