What do you mean when you say DC is applying to T10s?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you have to ask, OP, you’re not T10 material.

100%

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To us, T10s are eight ivies and MIT and Stanford.
The stats of kids at our school go to US News T10s like Chicago, Hopkins, Northwestern are always in a tier below the stats of ivy kids.

I am referring to the top 10 colleges in the state.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To us, T10s are eight ivies and MIT and Stanford.
The stats of kids at our school go to US News T10s like Chicago, Hopkins, Northwestern are always in a tier below the stats of ivy kids.

I have noticed that whenever someone says they attend a “Top 10” it is invariably Chicago or Hopkins. Just like the kid attending an “Ivy” goes to Cornell.

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.

I've never heard of someone saying that they go to a "T10," except here on DCUM, maybe. All the non-HYPSM T10 kids just say what school they go to; there's no shame. Calling out JHU and Chicago kids directly for masking their school under the phrase "T10" shows how weird/jealous/obsessed you are with the lives of literal teenagers. You're probably 50 and peaked in high school.

Get off this website. Your brain has become mushy to post tangents like this on the internet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

Nuanced, logical, and takes it all with a grain of salt.

A view like this allows you to keep your child at the center of their process while understanding that one element of college valuation is perception/prestige. It is not the most important one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

I like you. We would get along well.

[Anonymous]

If someone says T10, it means NOT HYPSM. Because HYPSM people are proud to say HYPSM

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If someone says T10, it means NOT HYPSM. Because HYPSM people are proud to say HYPSM

Guess you never met anyone who goes to Duke. It is always JHU or UChicago strivers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If someone says T10, it means NOT HYPSM. Because HYPSM people are proud to say HYPSM

Guess you never met anyone who goes to Duke. It is always JHU or UChicago strivers.

Don't forget Northwestern. I fail to find anything unique about that place other than the music program.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If someone says T10, it means NOT HYPSM. Because HYPSM people are proud to say HYPSM

M is separate.

Is it the same S where 40% of undergraduates are on some kind of disability?
Is it the same Harvard where remedial math is on offer. Such ignominy is even beyond UVAs tolerance threshold.

Is it same Yale where 90% get A without blinking an eye?
.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If someone says T10, it means NOT HYPSM. Because HYPSM people are proud to say HYPSM

M is separate.

Is it the same S where 40% of undergraduates are on some kind of disability?
Is it the same Harvard where remedial math is on offer. Such ignominy is even beyond UVAs tolerance threshold.

Is it same Yale where 90% get A without blinking an eye?
.

Yes, these same schools your DC would have gone to over JHU or Chicago in a heartbeat - had they been admitted.

[Anonymous]

It means US News T15.

[Anonymous]

It's the Ivy+ library system.
https://ivpluslibraries.org/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If someone says T10, it means NOT HYPSM. Because HYPSM people are proud to say HYPSM

Guess you never met anyone who goes to Duke. It is always JHU or UChicago strivers.

Don't forget Northwestern. I fail to find anything unique about that place other than the music program.

Wow. There are some dumb bunnies on this thread. Perhaps you could Google Medill and Kellogg?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If someone says T10, it means NOT HYPSM. Because HYPSM people are proud to say HYPSM

Guess you never met anyone who goes to Duke. It is always JHU or UChicago strivers.

Don't forget Northwestern. I fail to find anything unique about that place other than the music program.

Wow. There are some dumb bunnies on this thread. Perhaps you could Google Medill and Kellogg?

Grad schools?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To us, T10s are eight ivies and MIT and Stanford.
The stats of kids at our school go to US News T10s like Chicago, Hopkins, Northwestern are always in a tier below the stats of ivy kids.

I have noticed that whenever someone says they attend a “Top 10” it is invariably Chicago or Hopkins. Just like the kid attending an “Ivy” goes to Cornell.

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.

I've never heard of someone saying that they go to a "T10," except here on DCUM, maybe. All the non-HYPSM T10 kids just say what school they go to; there's no shame. Calling out JHU and Chicago kids directly for masking their school under the phrase "T10" shows how weird/jealous/obsessed you are with the lives of literal teenagers. You're probably 50 and peaked in high school.

Get off this website. Your brain has become mushy to post tangents like this on the internet.

Exactky. Not even bragging parents.