What do you mean when you say DC is applying to T10s?
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Anonymous
| I mean, if you really want to split hairs about it, T10s are the top ten schools by whatever metric you're referring to. That is not the same as the ivies and MIT and Stanford. If your kid is applying to all the ivies and MIT and Stanford, just say that. |
Anonymous
| "To us." LOL! |
Anonymous
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There are at least 10 schools that are as good or better than the Ivy League universities. And many more if you are interested in STEM. Off the top of my head -
MIT Stanford Duke Rice Chicago Northwestern Johns Hopkins Vanderbilt Cal Tech Berkeley Notre Dame And many more for students interested in engineering - Georgia Tech, Michigan, CMU, Texas and several other flagship schools Lots of 18 year olds will choose those schools over the various Ivy League schools. Most parents have a pretty outdated view about where the best students go today. |
Anonymous
Not all ivies carry the same prestige. Brown, Dartmouth and Columbia are below CalTech, Duke, Chicago, MIT, Northwestern, Stanford, and Hopkins. |
Anonymous
| HYP, MIT, Stanford, and Duke. The rest are interchangeable. |
Anonymous
| To me, I just read it as the student is applying to handful of schools that are a reach for everyone. |
Anonymous
Definitely Rice! |
Anonymous
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I don’t tend to use T10. But sometimes I use T20 and T50 as a shorrtand.
When I do, I’m referring to two different levels of selectivity/unpredictability when it comes to admissions. I do this knowing the rankings and lines between these categories are quite blurry in a whole bunch of ways. For example, it’s clear that the schools are ranked a little differently by different publications, and that a school’s exact ranking on a list (or in people’s minds) also changes depending on which categories of schools are included - only private universities or those plus public universities and/or LAC and/or regional schools. When I want information about a specific school, I either refer to it by name or group it with a couple of similar schools. |
Anonymous
why do you care where other kids apply? |
Anonymous
6 Ivies, MIT, Stanford, Duke, Caltech Sorry Columbia and Cornell… |
Anonymous
Yes! always this. The people whose kids go to Penn say "Penn." The people whose kids go to Stanford say "Stanford." ppl who say T10 or "Ivy" are always just under the wire -- for this cycle of USNWR. Who knows what next year brings for Chicago, JHU. |
Anonymous
Coastal bias. Northwestern and Chicago are top 10. Sorry Dartmouth, Columbia and Cornell. |
Anonymous
Agree with this. |
Anonymous
| If you have to ask, OP, you’re not T10 material. |
Anonymous
“Under the wire”? Penn is the same rank as Northwestern and JHU. No one is hiding these school behind the T10 label. You sound unhinged. |