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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Undergraduate Tiers
1A) Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Yale, Princeton
1B) Columbia, Penn, Duke, Chicago, Caltech

2A) Northwestern, Brown, Dartmouth, Williams, Amherst
2B) Rice, Cornell, Pomona, Vanderbilt, Georgetown, Cal, Notre Dame, Emory, Swarthmore, UCLA, Wellesley

3A) Michigan, NYU, USC, UVA, Tufts, Middlebury, Barnard
3B)UNC, Boston College, W&M, Wake, W&L, Davidson

Tier 2A is very debatable is there are a lot of great schools that could go there. [/quote]

Good stuff.  [/quote]
Thank you, I was trying my best to be fair bu.t accurate of what people think. I also work for a top pharmaceutical company FYI. [/quote]

I think this breakdown generally matches most people's perception about college prestige. Hopkins and WashU can go in 2B) as well.

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It doesn't match mine.  First there is Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Yale, Princeton, Caltech.   If you are at one of these schools, particularly Harvard, Stanford, MIT, people will think you were admitted to your top choice bar none.  Next is the "just missed" this category, which would be schools like Columbia, Duke, Chicago, but you could probably fold 2A into it.  People will know you likely were not admitted to Harvard, etc.  Below that, it really starts to matter less as people will recognize good schools, but don't really process tiers clearly.  They just start to think of a broad category of very good schools.  People should focus more on fit and finances.

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CalTech would not belong up there. It’s a specialized school not on the same level as MIT. At MIT one can major in non-stem majors such as Econ knowing it’s one of the best in the country. At CalTech, you cant do that.  CalTech was once a run of the mill regional vocational college.  Its no more than a STEM vo-tech. It’s less desirable than 2A, possibly belonging to 2B. [/quote]

Little known fact:  Feynman taught welding.[/quote]

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