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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][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't why people spend so much effort on these rankings. It's very simple. There are the Ivies and then there's everyone else, including the SLACs, ranked from 1 to 30. [/quote]

No one cares about the lower half of the Ivies. Don't kid yourself.[/quote]

Lower half of the Ivies is still at a very high level no matter how you kid yourself.

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There is no such thing as lower ranked or higher ranked Ivies. They are grouped together and analyzed as a collective. They are all top quality providing world class education. [/quote]

And analyzed as a collective, there are certainly several universities that are at their level and/or even *gasp* surpass them.[/quote]

Collectively surpass ivies? Source?

I can see MIT/Caltech surpassing ivies but these are niche universities. They may own ivies in engineering , but ivies own them in liberal arts. JHU all by itself may own ivies in the medical field, but it can't compete with ivies in liberal arts. Julliard/New England Conservatory/Curtis/Oberlin own them in arts and music, but they can't compete with ivies in liberal arts.[/quote]

DP. As a collective, I find the 8-or-so best non-Ivies to be more impressive than the 8 Ivies, collectives, to be honest.[/quote]

T16 > T10

Strange DCUM math.
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Stanford, MIT, Chicago, Duke, Northwestern, Hopkins, Caltech, Berkeley > Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Penn, Cornell, Brown, Dartmouth[/quote]

S, M, C, C are T-10.

Things get beyond bizarre when PP says Duke, Northwestern, Hopkins, Berkeley > Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Penn, Brown, Dartmouth[/quote]

Duke, Northwestern, Hopkins, Berkeley are not HYP(maybe +C) level but they certainly go head-to-head against Penn, Brown, Cornell and Dartmouth.[/quote]

Head to head in what?  In terms of name recognition, nearly everyone knows T-10. Like it or not, fair or not, this gives an applicant the benefit of doubt in employment. [/quote]

I think you're shooting yourself in the foot. Duke, Northwestern and Hopkins are T-10. Penn is T-10, but Brown, Cornell and Dartmouth are not.[/quote]

From another poster above:

"That’s why she places Berkeley so high. The students who most want to litigate the rankings are those who tried for better schools, but had to settle for something less. Now, their lifelong mission is to boost the status of their school near those that rejected them. To do so, they trash every school between their school’s current ranking and where they wish their school to be ranked. Other than their wish, they have no objective basis for their re-rankings, just like this bitter YouTuber. There’s no objective value in the video or this thread."

Not talking about the US News ranking. Talking about the general perception of the public.  [/quote]

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