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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]1 Harvard
2 Stanford
3 MIT
4 Princeton
5 Yale
6 Penn
7 Duke
8 Northwestern
9 Columbia 
10 Chicago/Hopkins/Caltech

There are 12 schools people consider T10. No one considers Vanderbilt or Rice or WashU T10. The 12 arguable “T10” schools, plus the other three ivies (Brown, Dartmouth, Cornell) make up the Ivy Plus. It’s a pretty objective list of the 15 schools people would consider “top” colleges and there’s a gap after that.

Case in point, with the exception of UChicago, who famously games the rankings, I don’t think any of those schools need to offer an ED2. The Vanderbilt Emory WashU tier schools all need ED2 for yield rates and to keep acceptance rates lower.[/quote]

+1.

Also (with the exception of UChicago), it seems like these 15 schools play the least "games" to try to lower their acceptance rate, or boast about it incessantly in their marketing materials.[/quote]

Well, these schools were king of gaming.  They don't need to do it as much anymore since they are maintaining superior positions.

These schools invented ED and all sorts of tactics.

UPenn invented ED to game the system, and soon all the ivies and top schools followed.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2001/09/the-early-decision-racket/302280/

Don't be naïve[/quote]

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