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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]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]

Stanford = (equivalent) Harvard, 
MIT = Princeton,
Chicago = Yale (or slight edge to Yale),
Duke = Columbia,
NW = Penn,
Hopkins > Brown,
Caltech > Dartmouth,
Berkeley > Cornell.   Conclusion is Top non-Ivy 8 beats 8 Ivies.[/quote]

Many schools on the left do not have the wow factor on the right.

Not many people in the world care.

Love the school that loves your kids. If it's JHU, then JHU is the greatest school ever.[/quote]

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