Overall Tiers of the Top Schools

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

UVA is on the B list. hopefully

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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).

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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?

OP claimed NU is the "closest to being S tier". I think that's unreal. But then again the S tier doesn't make any sense neither. I don't know what Duke has, and what Columbia has to be in the same tier as Yale.

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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?

OP claimed NU is the "closest to being S tier". I think that's unreal. But then again the S tier doesn't make any sense neither. I don't know what Duke has, and what Columbia has to be in the same tier as Yale.

What school in that grouping do you think is closer to being S tier? And what do you think Yale is top at outside of history and law?

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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?

OP claimed NU is the "closest to being S tier". I think that's unreal. But then again the S tier doesn't make any sense neither. I don't know what Duke has, and what Columbia has to be in the same tier as Yale.

What school in that grouping do you think is closer to being S tier? And what do you think Yale is top at outside of history and law?

I think really the only S Tier are Yale and Caltech, one produced so many SCOTUS, the other Nobel laureates.
The division between the rest of S Tier and A+ Tier is fuzzy. But saying NU is "closest to being S tier" does not make sense.
The entire list below S+ Tier is total bs.

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

Vandy up and Cornell down - and honestly the list is spot on then..

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

UVA is on the B list. hopefully

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