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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Dartmouth stem is terrible.  Brown is meh. Plenty of STEM oriented kids rightfully would choose Northwestern.[/quote]

This is true. You'd think for inclusion into the top ten, you'd have to be broadly good at everything. I don't think Brown or Dartmouth belong here precisely because they don't have much of a presence in engineering. Similarly, I don't think CalTech belongs here either because they have no presence at all in humanities or social sciences. Say what you will about MIT, but they have a great English department and a world class business school. It's obviously one of the world's best comprehensive universities.

But Brown, Dartmouth, and CalTech? No. If you can't compete in engineering or computer science in 2024, you shouldn't be included on any top 10 university list. Similarly, if you don't even have an English or History department, you are far too specialized to be ranked so high. Would replace those three with Cornell, Rice, and Berkeley, who are all good at everything and not notably weak in anything. 
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Hmmm...if well-rounded mattered---MIT and CalTech would not be T10.[/quote]

Precisely, if my kid were pre-law or politics or history I wouldn’t be looking at MIT or CalTech, but certainly Dartmouth and Brown would make the cut.  One of which has a med school and good bio and top public health. [/quote]

Clearly you don’t know anything about MIT.  It has a works class business school, Sloan.  It has joint MD PhD program with Harvard.  It has one of the top political science and economics departments.  Top biology and chemistry programs.  It’s much more than engineering.  [/quote]

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