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[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]

When I encounter graduates, e.g. for hiring, I think of them something like this:

1A) Harvard, Stanford, MIT (these are the ones that will generally be chosen over the ones below, they are the top of the top)
1B) Yale, Princeton, Caltech (will generally be chosen over the ones below but were perhaps not accepted to 1A)
2A) Columbia, Penn, Duke, Chicago, Brown, Dartmouth, Williams, Amherst, Pomona
2B) Northwestern, Rice, Cornell, WashU 
3)  Vanderbilt, Georgetown, Cal, Michigan, UCLA, NYU, USC, Notre Dame, Emory, UVA, UNC, Boston College, W&M, Wake, etc and a number of LACs (I'm just not going to distinguish much between graduates of these schools for suspected competence or intelligence.  [/quote]

ND and Vandy clumped in with W&M, Wake and the rest? I don't think so.  These schools are absolutely distinguished from the rest of your number 3 list.  Come on now.[/quote]

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