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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NWU is a strong research uni, Brown and Dartmouth are not. Not sure why JHU booster is grouping NWU with the Ivies.

I don’t care any which way, it just feels like everyone’s arguments are all over the place.[/quote]

Yet USNWR has Brown #1 for undergraduate teaching... it's about perspective, what criteria is important to the student, and of course, subjectivity.  These are all great schools 99% of students would love the chance to attend.  [b]These "groupings" are ridiculous.[/b][/quote]

Yes. The groupings are ridiculous and are ultimately arbitrary.

In academia, professors go seamlessly within the schools of the Ivy League (except for Dartmouth for most disciplines, as it’s not a research university) and schools like Northwestern, UChicago, Berkeley, Michigan, and Stanford. I’ve been in a position for the fed gov’t to put together panels of academics from all of these schools. I’ve seen them work together and socialize. They clearly consider one another part of the same circles.

I have family members who are professors and have confirmed this.

Certain groupings may mean something to the general public, but for the people who actually live in this world, they mean little. [/quote]

I agree with everything you said except that Dartmouth regained its R1 status.

https://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2019/02/r1-mcgill [/quote]

Dartmouth is the epitome of a has-been/hanger-on. They can’t ever seem to get a handle on what direction to pull their university (or “College”) in. I predict it’ll go down the path of W&M in the next couple of decades. If they’re really trying to now compete with other research universities in their tier, they’ve just reefated themselves to dead last place.[/quote]

Sorry they rejected you.

Dartmouth will be just fine, as they have for a few hundred years now.

It just baffles me why people think it is insightful to post stuff like this.[/quote]

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