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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Statistically it is wrong to to assign a numerical store to its school because the margin of error of its data sources is greater than the difference of the scores.

They should rank schools in tiers:

1. Super elite tier: HYPMS

2. Elite tier (6 - 15): Columbia, Penn, Chicago, Duke, Brown, Dartmouth, Cornell, ...

3. Top tier (16 - 30): These schools are equals in terms of prestige and rankings -- UVA, Michigan, UCLA, Cal, CMU, Emory, Georgetown, NYU, USC, Georgia Tech ...

4. Wake Forest, W&M ...

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Why is Cornell in tier two?[/quote]

First Tier:  Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Yale, Princeton, Caltech  (even within this, there is an understanding that those admitted to Harvard and Stanford, and perhaps MIT in STEM areas will generally choose those schools over the others)

Second Tier:  Columbia, Penn, Duke, Dartmouth, Brown, Chicago

Below second tier, I think it is a lot harder to make distinctions needed for meaningful tiers.  Clearly Rice is going to be above Rochester, but it is much more difficult to separate them as the two tiers above.   Even on second tier, I'm starting to debate whether to add Williams, Amherst, Pomona, etc.

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Tier 1: HYM
Tier 2: Princeton, Yale, Columbia, Penn, Chicago, Duke, Caltech
Tier 3: Brown, Dartmouth, Cornell, Vanderbilt, WashU

I think Princeton and Yale have ceased to be in the same league as the other 3 for a while now. [/quote]

Sorry, I meant Tier 1: HSM[/quote]

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