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Anonymous wrote:Vanderbilt: USC: SMU: Tulane

The only accurate one thus far. Well done PP!

Agree!!!

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Anonymous wrote:Duke: Vanderbilt: Wake: SMU

So are you saying they’re all four similar but those are the tiers?

This is actually super helpful and fun. If we can keep arguing to a minimum…

Agree. With this one too.
All similar imo and they go down a level or tier each time.

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Anonymous wrote:The Blasters.

Best take so far.

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Anonymous wrote:Must be a lot of Colgate red raider alums on board. Colgate isn’t remotely close to Princeton or Dartmouth. Not even close what a joke!

Why would alumni of Colgate be especially inclined to recommend Colgate as a backup school?

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UChicago: Johns Hopkins: Emory

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Alabama:U of Phoenix:Uber Driver

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Anonymous wrote:Dartmouth:Middlebury Holy Cross:Villanova. Colgate:Bucknell

I think Villanova is a tougher admit than Holy Cross these days . . .

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Anonymous wrote:Notre Dame : Vanderbilt : St Andrews

Yeah, these schools don't have similar vibes at all.

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Yale → (WashU/Rice) → W&M

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone have a sub for Harvey Mudd? Specifically one that is not nosebleed pricy (in terms of actual COA for non-need families).

Colorado school of mines

Yeah we looked at them earlier but part of legato DD loved about HMU was the chance to study other non-STEM stuff too.

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What would be the sub for Penn for a premed?

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Dartmouth - Colgate
I went to Colgate - was denied from Dartmouth - and so many others were in the same boat. The outdoorsy feel, work hard play hard environment, etc... were appealing to similar kids.

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Penn,Harvard,Columbia: UChicago,Vandy,WashU

Yale, Dartmouth: Amherst, Bowdoin

MIT: CMU

Note that Vandy and WashU are going in a different political direction away from the Ivies as noted on another thread here today. May or may not matter to an applicant.

with friends kids at all of these but Columbia, it does not matter nearly as much as DCUM thinks, as far as the undergrad experience. All are left of center schools, and all had something like 80-20% votes Harris to Trump based on polls by college dems and republicans and the on campus visual politics last fall. Again, no on campus info on Columbia, but the rest were simply not too different for the 24-25 school year.

NYC TT, this year no Jewish kids go to Columbia.

I don't think that is true. My Conservative Jewish, kosher-keeping friend has a son who really liked Columbia when he visited in the Spring. He has pretty high stats and feels like this might be a great year to get into Columbia as a Jewish student. Less competition!

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Anonymous wrote:Must be a lot of Colgate red raider alums on board. Colgate isn’t remotely close to Princeton or Dartmouth. Not even close what a joke!

Isn't that the point. Its supposed to be a school with a similar feel but one that is significantly easier to get into.

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Anonymous wrote:UChicago: Johns Hopkins: Emory

No -- Johns Hopkins is a tougher admit than Chicago.