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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honestly, this list is not done very well. I hope it didn't take too much time. I'll address the top since that is all DCUM tends to really care about.
MIT and Princeton are not at top in everything in the same way as Harvard and Stanford.
Those two are in their own tier and Yale would go with MIT and Princeton.
Most of the differences between the others are too subjective to break into multiple tiers (though a few schools may need to be removed). Deciding between them based on aid and preference is entirely reasonable. [/quote]

Disagree.  I am very familiar with the schools you mentioned, and MIT/Stanford go together in the first tire, while the others are second tier - if we are ranking top schools, which I personally think is ridiculous - especially considering that most people on DCUm have very little, if any idea what they are talking about (and certainly no personal experience).[/quote]
MIT is a Stanford peer in maybe half of their departments. For STEM focused kids, they are truly 1 and 1a but that just isn't true of any other area. Even the strongest MIT social sciences areas and the b-school are better at Stanford. The humanities departments are hardly even comparable. In the biological sciences areas, MIT is also more limited by not having a med school.[/quote]

Has PP not heard that Standford is also a jock factory? It's difficult to be a meathead and be a world class scholar in STEM or in humanities at the same time. Student athletes take up disproportionate amount of resources at Stanford.  STEM and humanities scholars are having to fight over leftover resources at Stanford.  Stanford ain't all that. [/quote]

+1 Stanford undergrad has its flaws. The premier undergrad school is still Princeton, it’s just so tiny and without professional schools it won’t have the recognition of Harvard/Stanford/MIT.[/quote]

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