How many elite/top schools are there?

[Anonymous]

No such thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:After WHYPSM (Wisconsin, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, and MIT), I don’t know what’s what these days.

Maybe WHYPSM + the next 20 - 25 schools?

So … Top 30 or so?

bro tried to sneak Princeton in 💀

[Anonymous]

All the places that the most accomplished people I know attended. (So that would put the number at 150? And not necessarily the top 150 in USWNR)

[Anonymous]

The number is whatever you want. It’s all arbitrary - there is little significant difference between school #50 and school #51, or 100 and 101, etc. Draw the line whenever you like.

[Anonymous]

Just One. NYU. Taylor Swift got a doctorate in fine arts from NYU and they are a billionaire.

[Anonymous]

How ever many you want there to be. There is no 1 answer, just what people want to hear/believe.

[Anonymous]

It's the Ivy League, plus Stanford, MIT, Duke, Northwestern, Chicago, Hopkins, Caltech, and Berkeley.

Top publics like UCLA, UVA, UMich, and UNC are widely respected and regarded as terrific schools, but people wouldn't consider them "elite", per se.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is only one. Harvard.

This

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's the Ivy League, plus Stanford, MIT, Duke, Northwestern, Chicago, Hopkins, Caltech, and Berkeley.

Top publics like UCLA, UVA, UMich, and UNC are widely respected and regarded as terrific schools, but people wouldn't consider them "elite", per se.

^^^ thinks Berkeley is a private institution, and/or hasn’t paid attention to the last decade of public institution rankings.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's the Ivy League, plus Stanford, MIT, Duke, Northwestern, Chicago, Hopkins, Caltech, and Berkeley.

Top publics like UCLA, UVA, UMich, and UNC are widely respected and regarded as terrific schools, but people wouldn't consider them "elite", per se.

^^^ thinks Berkeley is a private institution, and/or hasn’t paid attention to the last decade of public institution rankings.

Lolllllll

[Anonymous]

I don't think Notre Dame belongs on the list - it should go with Emory and Wash U - but other than that the list looks fine.

[Anonymous]

Who dug up this old useless thread?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Elite: Ivies, Stanford, MIT, Hopkins, Duke. Period hard stop.

Very, very good: Georgetown, UChicago, Slacs Williams, Pomona Swarthmore

Very Good: U Michigan, Notre Dame, UVA

No way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Having a discussion with my mother and DH. He says 50, Mother says 65, I say about 30. What do yall think?

Elite?

The answer is Ivy+ MIT, Duke, Johns Hopkins, U Chicacgo, Northwestern, Stanford, Caltech

That's it for elite.

Top school?
A lot more. If the average international student has heard of it, then it is a top school.

[Anonymous]

Some colleges Cooper Union are super hard to get into but most folks don't know them.