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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]any ivy league, Stanford, MIT, Cal Tech, Duke, Chicago, Northwestern, Amherst, Williams, Swarthmore, Pomona.

Below that non-ivies could be Hopkins, Georgetown, UVA, Michigan, and Cal Berkley. State schools by definition are less prestigious.  [/quote]
You made a huge jump to get UVA and Gtown into the conversation. Bottom elite at best. What's the next tier after "Bottom Elite"?[/quote]

Gtown is considered elite around the world.  It gets sh*t on this area because it's here and people always know faculty kids or legacies.

But- Gtown is hard as hell to get into.  EA had only a 5% admit rate into College of Arts & Sciences.

Gtown has been the only school to continually require standardized test scores--all of them.  It's not on the common app and has 4 long essays.  Right there it automatically self-selected the Applicant pool.  Other schools have about 50% of Applicants that get ditched in the can w/out even looking and their admit rates are false since they generate a large # of applicants with advertising, test optional and limited or no essays.  What is a 12% advertised admit rate at GU is really more like a 6%.

Fwiw, my husband a Hopkins alum was rejected at GU as was my Yale student nephew last year.  If a kid is in politics-govt-IR it is ranked higher than the Ivies.  It's business program is great.  [/quote]

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