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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So assuming top 5/top 10 percenters are getting accepted at the Ivy League, MIT, Stanford and the like.  Which prestigious colleges have you observed the "second tier" students enrolling?[/quote]

I think it's the top 1% at Ivy's and then the next top 10% at the schools listed here.[/quote]

The lower end of the traditional ivies (Cornell, Brown) are better grouped with the top end of the Southern Ivies (Vandy, Emory) and Duke is comparable to the mid-tier Ivies ((Dartmouth, Penn) - so it's difficult to generalize as to Ivies.

Also, it seems to me that Stanford belongs ahead on any Ivy League school, but reasonable people might disagree.[/quote]

This is pretty outdated. Brown with an acceptance rate of 8-9% is now harder to get into than U Penn or Dartmouth (not that I have any connection to Brown, but that's a fact).

Also, it's pretty subjective. I'm wondering what criteria you're using for ranking schools.  You rank Emory the same as Cornell and Brown (or Dartmouth, or whoever's at the bottom of the Ivy heap these days)? That's not based on acceptance rates, research output, or any criteria I can think of. Vandy and Cornell might have similar acceptance rates, but in terms of research output Cornell wins hands down. Same with your ranking of Stanford ahead of any Ivy school .  Both Emory and Stanford are great schools - but your own personal ranking seems pretty subjective! [/quote]

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