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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Outside of the Ivies & Ivy-Plus (10 to 15 colleges, max), rankings 15 to 200, no matter where your college is, DOES NOT MATTER. Nobody cares about non-elite rankings -- except insecure psychotic striver parents who need some scoreboard to prove to the world their kid isn't just another dime a dozen 'above average' teen (spoiler: that's really all they are). You all sound so low class arguing about 20-something v 40-something. Or 50-something v 100-something.[/quote]

Sorry, but I don't buy your argument.  A school considered to be in the top 25-50 is a lot more respected than #200.  How can you say it doesn't matter beyond the top 15.  I say it doesn't matter where you are on the top 15...lump those schools together for that matter.[/quote]

The thing about rankings it is an attempt to implement a tier of 1.  I can't really buy into that, and I also can't really work at such a granular level in everyday life.  If I meet someone from Group 1A of Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, MIT, and Caltech, I'm going to think they've hit the top level for selectivity.  There may be a group below that in my mind with Columbia, etc., where I think they just missed Group 1A (for argument's sake, I'll call this group 1B and name Columbia, Duke, Brown, Chicago, Dartmouth, Penn).  Below that one, my groups start getting broader.  I'm not going to distinguish much between a Vanderbilt grad, a Notre Dame grad, a Naval Academy grad, a Wellesley grad, etc. (with the provision that the Naval Academy grad has the military background) although they may fall at different points in these rankings.  But compare those to say, University of Arkansas (hope I'm not offending anyone), and I'm going to note mentally that the prior people have gone to a more selective school.   I don't have very firm cutoffs in my mind for these schools.  They are just ones I note as very good/highly regarded (but not 1A/1B).   I can't really process tiers of 1.[/quote]

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