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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Revised

Group 1: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Penn, Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, MIT, CalTech, Stanford, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, U Chicago

Group 2: Rice, Vanderbilt, ND, Georgetown, Carnegie Mellon, Emory, WashU, USC, NYU

Group 3: Wake Forest, BU, BC, Tufts, Northeastern, Lehigh, Rochester, CWRU, Villanova,

Group 4: Brandeis, RPI, Santa Clara, GW, Syracuse, Tulane, Pepperdine, Stevens Inst. Tech, WPI, Marquette, Fordham, SMU, Baylor, Gonzaga, LMU, Drexel, RIT, TCU, USD
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I always think the unconscious east coast regional bias on DCUM is so funny. These groups (and the other PPs above you) are the grouping of a specific group of anxious east coasters. For instance there are very few Californian students and employers that would rank Lehigh over (say) Santa Clara. The thought is incomprehensible. I don’t think a lot of California employers know Lehigh exists. [/quote]

Santa Clara has 50% acceptance rate

Current USN&WR ranking
Lehigh: 47
Santa Clara: 60
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Which really just goes to show how useless the rankings are when it comes to the massive numbers of students on the west coast.

Feel free to continue to take the position that California students, most of whom want to work in California, will pick Lehigh because some ranking says it is better.

The regional delusion is real, I guess. [/quote]

Santa Clara received 18,844 application for class of 2027
Acceptance rate 50% 
Yield 17%

It's just not it.

It's just not it.[/quote]

Okay, sure. Honestly you people are hopeless. Continue believing west coast kids or employers would ever in a million years pick Lehigh over Santa Clara if you want. 🤦🤦[/quote]

Santa Clara has great West Coast placement.  If I planned to work in SV or CA in general I would definitely choose over Lehigh.

Would choose the opposite if I wanted to work on East Coast…especially Northeast.

Would anyone try to argue otherwise?[/quote]

The PP who is trying to insist that her nonsense groups have nationwide relevance would. [/quote]

I thought the list was just straight out of USNWR in order, then [b]randomly broken into groups to annoy the people from the schools listed first on next tier down[/b].[/quote]

Well that’s probably completely accurate. 🤣🤣[/quote]

It is hilarious how people on this board, self-admitted STEM majors, don't seem to understand the arbitrary nature of US News  rankings, and how little a 5-10 spread really means. They have made it quasi-mystical, "BC must be a good school because it is 30! BU is bad because it is 40!"*

*I don't pay enough attention to those schools to know their real ranks, don't yell at me, pedants. [/quote]

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