Chicago is a good school. Certainly T25 or maybe T20. But T10? No. It's just not that selective. As PP pointed out, the ED0/1/2 and artificially high yield put it out of the running. |
Like really! |
You are not US News. Kids apply to both. A couple SLACs are arguably in the back end of the top 10. |
It is also a stretch to call Cal Tech a national university; it has 2400 students, including grad students, and in that sense has more in common with Harvey Mudd than any of the schools on the list (Harvey Mudd being yet another top 20 or top 25 candidate). |
Not what it used to be. Definitely a T10 30, 40 years ago. |
Engineering T15 based on peer group, career outcomes and research overlaps a lot with the overall top 15. Peer group matters. Some schools get rated higher on USnews but that does not take into account the peers. MIT, Stanford, Caltech, UCB, Princeton, Penn, Cornell, Harvard, Northwestern, GT, CMU, UCLA, UIUC, Mich, UT |
That's the Top 10 overall. Great list. |
This |
Def not Columbia! Replace with Northwestern Couldn’t give me a free Columbia education. That’s a dumpster fire. |
This works, though many would put in Northwestern for Uchicago given the ED0/1/2 situation the latter uses to falsely boost "selectivity" |
Ranking of universities by DCUM = ranking of exclusivity. It's the size of the club that matters |
+1000 |
WASP are not top 10. Get real. SLACs are not even considered by most families. |
+1 But OP already knew this. |
Why not? Most families don’t consider any of the top 10. |