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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]

Roughly, the "rankings" of the tippy top US colleges goes somewhat like this:

Tier AAA+: Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Princeton, MIT (some would maybe add Columbia to this tier)
Tier AAA: Columbia, UPenn, UChicago, Northwestern, Duke, Caltech
Tier AA: Cornell, Dartmouth, Brown, Johns Hopkins
Tier A: Rice, Vanderbilt, Notre Dame, UCLA, UC Berkely, UMichigan
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I agree with these groupings, but the tiering is far too steep. Are all the schools lower these mediocre? The tiers are more like AAA+, AAA+/-, AAA, AAA-/+. As PP said, all if these schools are VERY good, and even the next 10 schools in the USNWR rankings are considered very selective. [/quote]

These "tiers" remain a fool's errand - and I am being kind with "fool". ;-)

All these excellent schools are better than others in certain areas, and it is wholly subjective.  HYPSM may jump off a resume faster but they will all stand out in the pile.  It does no one any service to gradate the top 20, and possibly not far beyond that.

You people remind me of those guys in high school that argued whether Cindy Crawford was hotter than Christie Brinkley.  Y'ain't gittin' either.[/quote]

I agree, these are all among the top universities in the world.[/quote]

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