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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As someone who is local, here is how things tier out in my mind (each row is its own tier, not ranked within each tier) - also, didn't include state schools or schools outside of the metro Boston area:

Harvard/MIT
BC/BU/Tufts/Wellesley/Babson
Northeastern/Bentley/Brandeis
(Deliberate space here)
Anything else you've barely heard of - Suffolk, Merrimack, Curry, Simmons, Lesley, Stonehill, Endicott

* Emerson, Berklee, Wentworth, MCPHS are specialized in my mind so I didn't rank them. I never know where to put Wheaton.[/quote]

This is about right. I moved away after grad school.

Harvard
MIT
Tufts
Wellesley
Boston College
Babson/Olin
Berklee 
Boston University 
Brandeis
Northeastern
Wentworth[/quote]

I agree with this list.  But on the Tufts/Wellesley/BC choice - visit and see which school community you like best. These are very different cultures and there's not enough difference in school quality to overcome whether you feel like the school is the right place for you. BC and Wellesley have much better (short and long term) alumni connections. And for grad school, doing very well at any of these schools places you in the same pile of qualified applicants. BC is by far the friendliest, fun culture of the three.[/quote]

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