Elite colleges: T10? T20? Or T25?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here is a ranking on a thread from two years ago that seemed to get consensus. I would hav northwestern lower but otherwise looks good.

Undergraduate Tiers
1A) Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Yale, Princeton
1B) Columbia, Penn, Duke, Chicago, Caltech

2A) Northwestern, Brown, Dartmouth, Williams, Amherst
2B) Rice, Cornell, Pomona, Vanderbilt, Georgetown, Cal, Notre Dame, Emory, Swarthmore, UCLA, Wellesley

3A) Michigan, NYU, USC, UVA, Tufts, Middlebury, Barnard
3B)UNC, Boston College, W&M, Wake, W&L, Davidson

Tier 2A is very debatable is there are a lot of great schools that could go there.

+1 the question is. Is 2B elite? I would say yes. Is 3B elite?

[Anonymous]

Michigan is easily in 2B in the above ranking. There is a large drop off between Michigan and UVA because of the latter’s weakness in its STEM offerings.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here is a ranking on a thread from two years ago that seemed to get consensus. I would hav northwestern lower but otherwise looks good.

Undergraduate Tiers
1A) Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Yale, Princeton
1B) Columbia, Penn, Duke, Chicago, Caltech

2A) Northwestern, Brown, Dartmouth, Williams, Amherst
2B) Rice, Cornell, Pomona, Vanderbilt, Georgetown, Cal, Notre Dame, Emory, Swarthmore, UCLA, Wellesley

3A) Michigan, NYU, USC, UVA, Tufts, Middlebury, Barnard
3B)UNC, Boston College, W&M, Wake, W&L, Davidson

Tier 2A is very debatable is there are a lot of great schools that could go there.

What tier is JHU in?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here is a ranking on a thread from two years ago that seemed to get consensus. I would hav northwestern lower but otherwise looks good.

Undergraduate Tiers
1A) Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Yale, Princeton
1B) Columbia, Penn, Duke, Chicago, Caltech

2A) Northwestern, Brown, Dartmouth, Williams, Amherst
2B) Rice, Cornell, Pomona, Vanderbilt, Georgetown, Cal, Notre Dame, Emory, Swarthmore, UCLA, Wellesley

3A) Michigan, NYU, USC, UVA, Tufts, Middlebury, Barnard
3B)UNC, Boston College, W&M, Wake, W&L, Davidson

Tier 2A is very debatable is there are a lot of great schools that could go there.

What tier is JHU in?

1B or 2A.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here is a ranking on a thread from two years ago that seemed to get consensus. I would hav northwestern lower but otherwise looks good.

Undergraduate Tiers
1A) Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Yale, Princeton
1B) Columbia, Penn, Duke, Chicago, Caltech

2A) Northwestern, Brown, Dartmouth, Williams, Amherst
2B) Rice, Cornell, Pomona, Vanderbilt, Georgetown, Cal, Notre Dame, Emory, Swarthmore, UCLA, Wellesley

3A) Michigan, NYU, USC, UVA, Tufts, Middlebury, Barnard
3B)UNC, Boston College, W&M, Wake, W&L, Davidson

Tier 2A is very debatable is there are a lot of great schools that could go there.

+1 the question is. Is 2B elite? I would say yes. Is 3B elite?

How do you definitively define something that is relative and subjective? Why do we spend this much time on it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:HYPSM, Caltech, Columbia, Penn, Chicago, Northwestern, Duke, Dartmouth, Brown, Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Amherst, Williams

+1

+1

This ranking makes the most sense. The tiers list above is sort of nonsensical.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:HYPSM, Caltech, Columbia, Penn, Chicago, Northwestern, Duke, Dartmouth, Brown, Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Amherst, Williams

+1

+1

This ranking makes the most sense. The tiers list above is sort of nonsensical.

Which suggests to me you have some association with a school on this ranking, but outside of 1a on the other.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here is a ranking on a thread from two years ago that seemed to get consensus. I would hav northwestern lower but otherwise looks good.

Undergraduate Tiers
1A) Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Yale, Princeton
1B) Columbia, Penn, Duke, Chicago, Caltech

2A) Northwestern, Brown, Dartmouth, Williams, Amherst
2B) Rice, Cornell, Pomona, Vanderbilt, Georgetown, Cal, Notre Dame, Emory, Swarthmore, UCLA, Wellesley

3A) Michigan, NYU, USC, UVA, Tufts, Middlebury, Barnard
3B)UNC, Boston College, W&M, Wake, W&L, Davidson

Tier 2A is very debatable is there are a lot of great schools that could go there.

The tiers of a clown

Why? Seems well thought out actually.

Whoosh

[Anonymous]

This forum is for clowns.

If you got into any of the schools listed in this thread, you’re elite and the school is too. Now, please do yourself, your school, and this forum a favor and find something better to do with your time.

[Anonymous]

Northeastern

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Northeastern

Northeastern is about T30ish

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Michigan is easily in 2B in the above ranking. There is a large drop off between Michigan and UVA because of the latter’s weakness in its STEM offerings.

This argument is a joke. According to USNWR’s engineering ratings, Brown, Dartmouth, and Yale all have ratings lower than UVA, but somehow that doesn’t matter?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Michigan is easily in 2B in the above ranking. There is a large drop off between Michigan and UVA because of the latter’s weakness in its STEM offerings.

This argument is a joke. According to USNWR’s engineering ratings, Brown, Dartmouth, and Yale all have ratings lower than UVA, but somehow that doesn’t matter?

Brown and Dartmouth should be 2b

[Anonymous]

Mental masturbation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Michigan is easily in 2B in the above ranking. There is a large drop off between Michigan and UVA because of the latter’s weakness in its STEM offerings.

This argument is a joke. According to USNWR’s engineering ratings, Brown, Dartmouth, and Yale all have ratings lower than UVA, but somehow that doesn’t matter?

Brown and Dartmouth should be 2b

Well, let’s demote some more schools based on lack of engineering chops. Williams snd Amherst don’t have engineering programs. Guess that makes them weak. Maybe they shouldn’t appear on your list at all.