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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] Ivies:
Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Columbia
Penn
Brown
Dartmouth
Cornell

Non-Ivies:
Stanford
MIT
Chicago
Northwestern
Duke
Caltech
Johns Hopkins

They are pretty evenly matched[/quote]

Not really. [/quote]

Stanford, MIT, Caltech, and Chicago easily face up to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Columbia. Northwestern, Duke, and Johns Hopkins are peers to Penn, Cornell, Brown, and Dartmouth. They are evenly matched.[/quote]

+1. Might as well make a “new Ivy League” with Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Stanford, MIT, Caltech, and Chicago.[/quote]

Well, the Big 10 now has 14 teams... so just expand!   Cross country conferences!  East coast, west coast, and the midwest... got it all covered.
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Should just be HYPSM and then rest of top 15[/quote]

I would include Caltech, Columbia, Chicago (and possibly Penn) with HYPSM. What separates these 8 schools from the rest of the T20s is that they are world-class institutions that have been, and currently are absolute leaders of America’s academia. The other T20s offer a great undergrad experience too but their departments are not as highly ranked.

If you look at global rankings, which emphasize academics more than anything else, you’ll know what I’m talking about. These 8 schools + Berkeley are always highly ranked. The HYPSM designation isn’t even present in the global rankings.[/quote]

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