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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I was just thinking that this morning.

Seems like people should take into account the trickle down of good students. As the number of applicants to top schools has increased while the number of spots has remained constant, kids that in the past would have gotten into Ivies are now going one tier down. The second tier kids are now going third tier and on and on. There are plenty of smart kids at all of the top 100 schools so we need to rethink how we perceive certain schools. 
Something that I remember hearing back when I was touring colleges - schools that are in good locations attract good professors. So even if you may think Northeastern isn't so great, Boston can attract good profs. [/quote]

Agreed. For national universities, maybe something like this: tier 1 = top 10; tier 2 = 11-25ish. That said, placed in the context of 4000 colleges, anyone attending one of these colleges is attending an elite institution. The notion that smart kids are only at Ivies is nonsense. [/quote]
The top 25 schools being tier 2 is laughable and tone-deaf. But either way, some of you don't seem to remember there are 3 ivy league schools in the 11-25 section. But some of you would still rate schools like Vandy and Gtown lower than Cornell just because Cornell is an ivy, it's hypocritical.  [/quote]

NP here. As a Georgetown alum I rate Vandy and Georgetown below Cornell because that is where every single ranking (including US NEWS) puts those universities when comparing universities on a global basis.

https://www.topuniversities.com/university-ranking...world-university-rankings/2021 
(Cornell #19, Vanderbilt #187, Georgetown #230)

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-univers...ank/sort_order/asc/cols/stats. 
(Cornell #19, Vanderbilt #111, Georgetown #120))

Even USNEWS has Cornell at #22 globally, while dropping Vanderbilt to #72 and Georgetown to #322
https://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/rankings

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We're talking undergrad honey not graduate. Stay on topic. At the undergrad level These schools are the same. [/quote]

We are talking about prestige and perception which is not -- and cannot -- be based solely on "undergrad".   Views of a schools prestige is influenced by the interactions others have with a university in any and all of its facets (undergrad, graduate, professional, faculty, research, alumni, etc.).  [/quote]

You're wrong. See post 16:24 above. If what you're saying was somehow true, UT Austin must be more prestigious than Dartmouth and Brown. UT Austin's highly ranked graduate programs, its large alumni base, and global reach must mean it's more prestigious than Dartmouth whose medical school is ranked 45th. Most people in the know realize prestige of a university comes from it's undergraduate program, which is why Dartmouth is more coveted than almost all of the schools mentioned. [/quote]

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