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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’d put Wellesley back in. Elite people have heard of elite schools. Hillary gave it a boost.[/quote]

[b]18 Elites[/b] [No Wellesley]:
1 - Harvard [The "Brand" despite its underwhelming campus and undergraduate education]
2 - Stanford/Yale/MIT/Princeton [I would go to Stanford or Yale, if I could get in]
6 - Columbia/Penn/Caltech [Columbia just outside of the top 5 is still a phenomenal institution with elite plus status in the best city]
9 - Chicago/Duke/Northwestern
12 - Dartmouth/Brown/Cornell/Hopkins/Berkley/Amherst/Williams [only 1 public and 2 SLACs deserve elite status]

Just missed the cut: Swathmore, Pomona, Harvey Mudd[/quote]

Stanford and MIT should be in a tier of their own since they have global recognition that Yale and Princeton lacks.

I would still put Columbia in the Yale/Princeton tier. I think most would agree that Columbia's in between the two tiers, but it's closer to Yale and Princeton. Just as there's no reason to cut out 3 schools from this list to say that the top 15 schools are elite, having a top 5 is sort of an arbitrary cutoff.

1 - Harvard
2 - Stanford/MIT
4 - Yale/Princeton/Columbia
7 - Penn/Caltech
9 - Chicago/Duke/Northwestern
12 - Dartmouth/Brown/Cornell/Hopkins/Berkeley/Amherst/Williams
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You're just parroting US News ranking. You offer nothing insightful. [/quote]

Agree.
1 - Harvard
2 - Stanford/Yale/MIT/Princeton
6 - Columbia/Penn/Caltech
9 - Chicago/Duke/Northwestern
12 - Dartmouth/Brown/Cornell/Hopkins/Berkley[/quote]

I agree w this[/quote][/quote]

You can agree with this list all you want. It’s important only to you ... and your grandma. [/quote]

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