College tiers?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DCUM obsession with prestige is so exhausting. Everything must be ranked and hierarchical.

+1
What is the purpose of yet *another* ranking thread? Which, btw, is only based on someone's opinion.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DCUM obsession with prestige is so exhausting. Everything must be ranked and hierarchical.

Welcome to the U.S.A.

I may be wrong, but I had assumed it was newcomers to the U.S. driving this.

USN&WR

Drives the college ranking narrative.

For bumpkins and newbies, yes.

Ah, found the sour grapes poster whose kid's school has been downgraded.
DP

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCUM obsession with prestige is so exhausting. Everything must be ranked and hierarchical.

Welcome to the U.S.A.

I may be wrong, but I had assumed it was newcomers to the U.S. driving this.

USN&WR

Drives the college ranking narrative.

For bumpkins and newbies, yes.

USN&WR rankings (T10, T20, T25, etc.) are pretty much what DCUMers post about, directly or indirectly.

If you don't realize this you must be a newbie.

Statement stands.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tier 1 - Your Mom

Tier 2 - NO1CRR

Tier 3 - Yale

Tier 4 - Stahp

Tier 1 - the school that loved your kid.
The one your kid chose to attend.

Tier 2 - all other schools that loved your kid.

Tier 3- ivy pluses

Tier 3 - ivy minuses

LOL

[Anonymous]

Tier 1 - Faber College

Tier 2 - UC Sunnydale

Tier 3 - Harrison University

Tier 4 - Monsters University

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tier 1 - Faber College

Tier 2 - UC Sunnydale

Tier 3 - Harrison University

Tier 4 - Monsters University

I totally disagree. Huxley College is the most elite!

[Anonymous]

^ no disrespect to the environmental school as I meant
Huxley College, a fictional college in the famous 1932 Marx Brothers film, Horse Feathers.

[Anonymous]

And Starfleet Academy, of course (though nobody seems to be able to agree if the service academies belong on the LAC list). So maybe Huxley of Marx Brothers and Starfleet Academy both tier 1, Faber and UC Sunnydale tier 2.

Unless a kid really wants to learn to slay vampires, in which case Sunnydale is tier 1. (Frustrating that the demarcations between tiers aren’t tidier.)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Tier 1 - HPSM (tops academically at everything, no special recruitment tactics needed)

Tier 2 - Caltech, UPenn, Duke, Yale, Columbia (great academically at vast majority of things, highly desirable but still employ some special recruitment tactics to compete with Tier 1)

Tier 3 - Brown, Dartmouth, UChicago, Northwestern, Johns Hopkins, Vanderbilt, Rice, Berkeley, UCLA, Georgetown, UMich, Cornell, Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, Pomona, Bowdoin, Harvey Mudd, Olin College of Engineering (great academically at many things, slightly less desirable than previous tiers and slightly worse undergrad outcomes)

Tier 4 - UVA, NYU, UNC, Georgia Tech, USC, CMU, WUSTL, Emory, Carleton, Wellesley, Wesleyan, Middlebury, Claremont McKenna, Barnard, Davidson, Grinnell…

OP, before you waste everyone's time with these kinds of posts, please google. Ivy Scholars is the only operative who uses five tiers, already. https://www.ivyscholars.com/2021/02/12/which-college-is-right-for-you/. throwing out your own tiers is useless to readers here.

+100

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tier 1 - HPSM (tops academically at everything, no special recruitment tactics needed)

Tier 2 - Caltech, UPenn, Duke, Yale, Columbia (great academically at vast majority of things, highly desirable but still employ some special recruitment tactics to compete with Tier 1)

Tier 3 - Brown, Dartmouth, UChicago, Northwestern, Johns Hopkins, Vanderbilt, Rice, Berkeley, UCLA, Georgetown, UMich, Cornell, Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, Pomona, Bowdoin, Harvey Mudd, Olin College of Engineering (great academically at many things, slightly less desirable than previous tiers and slightly worse undergrad outcomes)

Tier 4 - UVA, NYU, UNC, Georgia Tech, USC, CMU, WUSTL, Emory, Carleton, Wellesley, Wesleyan, Middlebury, Claremont McKenna, Barnard, Davidson, Grinnell…

Duke should be tier 3

[Anonymous]

Tier one: mullet, pompadour

Tier two: buzz cut, shag, quiff

Tier three: fauxhawk, bowl cut, Sean Cassidy feathers

Tier four: comb-over

[Anonymous]

I like the Tiers OP created and see a lot of truth in them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCUM obsession with prestige is so exhausting. Everything must be ranked and hierarchical.

Welcome to the U.S.A.

I may be wrong, but I had assumed it was newcomers to the U.S. driving this.

There is a higher percentage of those new to the country who are misinformed about how the college attended affects outcomes, but really prestige obsession is distributed pretty well across the spectrum of Americans. It's truly sad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tier 1 - HPSM (tops academically at everything, no special recruitment tactics needed)

Tier 2 - Caltech, UPenn, Duke, Yale, Columbia (great academically at vast majority of things, highly desirable but still employ some special recruitment tactics to compete with Tier 1)

Tier 3 - Brown, Dartmouth, UChicago, Northwestern, Johns Hopkins, Vanderbilt, Rice, Berkeley, UCLA, Georgetown, UMich, Cornell, Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, Pomona, Bowdoin, Harvey Mudd, Olin College of Engineering (great academically at many things, slightly less desirable than previous tiers and slightly worse undergrad outcomes)

Tier 4 - UVA, NYU, UNC, Georgia Tech, USC, CMU, WUSTL, Emory, Carleton, Wellesley, Wesleyan, Middlebury, Claremont McKenna, Barnard, Davidson, Grinnell…

Holy Fs! Until I saw this list I didn’t realize the U.S. armed forces officers are dumb arses! OP, thank you for opening my eyes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tier 1 - HPSM (tops academically at everything, no special recruitment tactics needed)

Tier 2 - Caltech, UPenn, Duke, Yale, Columbia (great academically at vast majority of things, highly desirable but still employ some special recruitment tactics to compete with Tier 1)

Tier 3 - Brown, Dartmouth, UChicago, Northwestern, Johns Hopkins, Vanderbilt, Rice, Berkeley, UCLA, Georgetown, UMich, Cornell, Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, Pomona, Bowdoin, Harvey Mudd, Olin College of Engineering (great academically at many things, slightly less desirable than previous tiers and slightly worse undergrad outcomes)

Tier 4 - UVA, NYU, UNC, Georgia Tech, USC, CMU, WUSTL, Emory, Carleton, Wellesley, Wesleyan, Middlebury, Claremont McKenna, Barnard, Davidson, Grinnell…

Holy Fs! Until I saw this list I didn’t realize the U.S. armed forces officers are dumb arses! OP, thank you for opening my eyes.

The top military institutions are probably tier 3 or 4 based on OP’s list