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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I knew this thread would soon become another one of those pointless arguments about prestige, like grown men fighting over whether Michael Jordan or Magic Johnson was the better player.

So here’s the tier list from the last one of these threads, which became a ridiculous 30-page brawl until people more or less reached a consensus.

Undergraduate:

Harvard Stanford MIT Yale Princeton 
Columbia Caltech 
Penn Chicago 
Duke Northwestern 
Dartmouth Brown 
Cornell JHU 
Berkeley

Overall:

Harvard 
Stanford MIT Yale 
Columbia Princeton 
Penn Chicago 
Berkeley 
Duke Northwestern[/quote]
Wrong

Harvard Stanford MIT 
Yale Princeton Caltech Columbia (yes, NYC)
Penn 
Dartmouth Brown Cornell
Chicago
Duke Northwestern
JHU 
Berkeley

Overall:
Harvard Stanford MIT Berkeley
Princeton Yale Columbia Penn 
Chicago Cornell
Dartmouth Brown Duke Northwestern[/quote]

Wrong

Undergraduate:
Harvard Stanford MIT
Yale Princeton Columbia Caltech
Penn Chicago
Dartmouth Brown
Duke Cornell Northwestern JHU
Berkeley

Overall:
Harvard Stanford Berkeley MIT Columbia
Princeton Yale Penn 
Chicago Cornell
Dartmouth Brown Duke Northwestern
[/quote]

You clearly don't work in academia because there is absolutely no way Dartmouth and Brown would be included in a list of the overall best universities in the nation.

Undergraduate:

Harvard Stanford MIT Yale Princeton 
Columbia Caltech 
Penn Chicago 
Duke Northwestern 
Dartmouth Brown 
Cornell JHU 
Berkeley

Overall:

Harvard 
Stanford MIT Yale 
Columbia Princeton 
Penn Chicago Berkeley
Duke Northwestern[/quote]

Good list[/quote]

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