Do you agree with this undergrad list

[Anonymous]

I knew a psychiatrist who over 50 years later still thought about these lists and made believe even half a century later that he was accepted to tier 1, even though he wasn't.

[Anonymous]

Add me to the chorus: If you think this is useful, practical or accurate in any way you are severely misguided and don’t understand anything about college, it’s value, or admissions.

If you are doing this as a parlor game it’s a dumb one played by idiots.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No...


Best undergraduate, I changed my mind a bit...
1. Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, MIT, Yale

1b. Columbia, Caltech, Upenn, U Chicago

2. Duke, Northwestern, Johns Hopkins, Dartmouth

2b. Brown, Williams, Amherst

3?. Vanderbilt, Cornell, Swarthmore, Rice, Pomona,

3b?. Emory, Notre Dame, WashU, Georgetown, Bowdoin, UCLA, UCB, CMU

4. UVA, Umich, Tufts, Wellesley, USC, UNC, CMC

I think 3 and 3b is splitting hairs.

This list holds pretty well. I’d move all of 2b up to 2 with Dartmouth (and Pomona), and move down Hopkins and Northwestern to 2B

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Best undergraduate
1. Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, MIT, Yale

1b. Columbia, Caltech, Upenn, U Chicago

2. Duke, Northwestern, Johns Hopkins

2b. Dartmouth, Brown

Based on what?

Are you new here?

Not at all. Just enjoy hearing tortured rationalizations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Add me to the chorus: If you think this is useful, practical or accurate in any way you are severely misguided and don’t understand anything about college, it’s value, or admissions.

If you are doing this as a parlor game it’s a dumb one played by idiots.

Maybe, but as far as parlor games go, it is one of the better ones. ...Especially when mega-millions of dollars are spent by companies to compile lists that are devoured by much of the world ( students and parents), which is a veritable gold mine in interest and publicity.

Meanwhile, as an adult male I am reading this nonsense because I am stuck with no date, let alone a hot one for this evening.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Best for what?

+1

[Anonymous]

What about UMD and Virginia Tech?

Also, I think Emory should be grouped under 1, just based on the reputation of their Engineering program.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Add me to the chorus: If you think this is useful, practical or accurate in any way you are severely misguided and don’t understand anything about college, it’s value, or admissions.

If you are doing this as a parlor game it’s a dumb one played by idiots.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No...


Best undergraduate, I changed my mind a bit...
1. Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, MIT, Yale

1b. Columbia, Caltech, Upenn, U Chicago

2. Duke, Northwestern, Johns Hopkins, Dartmouth

2b. Brown, Williams, Amherst

3?. Vanderbilt, Cornell, Swarthmore, Rice, Pomona,

3b?. Emory, Notre Dame, WashU, Georgetown, Bowdoin, UCLA, UCB, CMU

4. UVA, Umich, Tufts, Wellesley, USC, UNC, CMC

I think 3 and 3b is splitting hairs.


List looks good. I would move JHU and Dartmouth down to 2b.

[Anonymous]

Then, what are you doing on this baord and investing your time reading the comments?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No...


Best undergraduate, I changed my mind a bit...
1. Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, MIT, Yale

1b. Columbia, Caltech, Upenn, U Chicago

2. Duke, Northwestern, Johns Hopkins, Dartmouth

2b. Brown, Williams, Amherst

3?. Vanderbilt, Cornell, Swarthmore, Rice, Pomona,

3b?. Emory, Notre Dame, WashU, Georgetown, Bowdoin, UCLA, UCB, CMU

4. UVA, Umich, Tufts, Wellesley, USC, UNC, CMC

I think 3 and 3b is splitting hairs.

This list holds pretty well. I’d move all of 2b up to 2 with Dartmouth (and Pomona), and move down Hopkins and Northwestern to 2B

Don't think Dartmouth / Pomona should move up. Dartmouth has been in secular decline for years and has cemented position as the bottom ivy

[Anonymous]

How did that happen to Dartmouth ? A beautiful campus.
hard to believe. Too many athletes recruited ?

It has to bebetter than Penn CAS

[Anonymous]

My personal list:

1. HYPSM
2. Columbia, Caltech, Wharton
3. Chicago, Penn (non-Wharton)
4. Duke, Northwestern
5. Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth, JHU
6. Amherst, Williams, Swarthmore, Pomona

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My personal list:

1. HYPSM
2. Columbia, Caltech, Wharton
3. Chicago, Penn (non-Wharton)
4. Duke, Northwestern
5. Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth, JHU
6. Amherst, Williams, Swarthmore, Pomona

This list sounds quite reasonable. Thankyou.

However, Brown, Dartmouth, Amherst and Williams should be ahead of Penn CAS. Penn CAS is not special in comparison.

[Anonymous]

ALso, Swarthmore probably provides better undergraduate education than Penn CAS.