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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Swarthmore should be grouped with Williams and Amherst. All three should probably be in your group 2. Pomona could stay too but I'd probably swap it and Swarthmore. Pomona is a close call. Amherst, Williams, and Swarthmore are the only LACs USNWR has ever ranked #1 multiple times and none has ever been lower than 4 (Pomona has been 7 and 8 at different points though it has been on the rise, especially since it is the best western LAC).

I'd add a group 0 at the top that is just Harvard and Stanford. Their undergrad and grad programs are excellent in pretty much every department and school, which isn't the case with even Yale and MIT.

Group 1 should just be Yale, MIT, Princeton, and Caltech. Move the rest of group 1 to group 2.[/quote]

I agree Duke, Chicago, Hopkins, Northwestern and Penn don't belong in the top group. They are great but there is a bit of a gap.
I agree with adding Swarthmore to 2 as well. I also think Smith, another excellent 7 Sisters women's college with a fabulous alumni network and big endowment, should be in 3 (yes, below Wellesley but above Barnard).[/quote]

Barnard seems out of place. Isn’t it ranked #18 in the SLAC list? Like the equivalent of Colgate or something? [/quote]

It has very good name recognition as a 7 Sister and is affiliated with Columbia. It is probably the #3 women's college after Wellesley and Smith. [/quote]

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