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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe we can end this by agreeing that Cornell, NW, Tufts and Emory are all great schools and very competitive to get in to. You need high scores, top grades and sometimes extra.

GT appeals to a specific market who are much more concerned with so called prestige and not the actual quality of education. Good for people with the money to pay for test prep who come from certain feeder schools but aren’t standouts in any way.

Brandeis and BC don’t belong in the same conversation. They’re a couple levels down. [/quote]

And many would argue that Cornell and Northwestern are a tier above Tufts and Emory. They're all excellent schools, but the former two have a much longer history of being top research universities and undergraduate destinations.[/quote]

Not even sure why these schools are even being dragged into a conversation about Tufts... funny that.[/quote]

Uh, because the Cornell/Tufts choice is a common one - and Northwestern is often considered in the same breadth as Cornell as well (some think them peers, others think of Northwester as the backup). Agreed thay it’s unusual for an applicant to have both Northwestern and Tufts on their radar, but clearly Cornell is the common denominator.  It all makes a lot of sense. [/quote]

Interesting, because in my circles Cornell would be seen as the backup to Northwestern. No offense to Cornell; my brother and SIL and my uncle all are Cornell grads, so we have quite a lot of love for the school in our family. I'm from the Mountain West, though, so perhaps my perceptions are different than here in DMV.[/quote]

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