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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]While acknowledging that this is a silly, navel-gazing exercise bereft of any empirical basis, below are my personal set of tiers, which are very loose. I honestly don't know how one can claim, as a very general matter, that Princeton is "better" than Harvard, Duke better than Brown, or Amherst better than Pomona. People get really upset because of a ridiculous obsession with ordinal numeration. Anyhow:

Tier 1: HYPSM

Tier 2: The remaining Ivies, Duke, CalTech, JHU, Northwestern, Rice, WASP

Tier 3: UCLA, Berkeley, Michigan, UVA, CMU, Georgetown, Notre Dame, WashU, Vanderbilt, Emory, USC, Bowdoin, Wellesley, Carleton, Mudd, CMC.

Tier 4: A bunch more really good schools that are very close to the Tier 3.

To be clear, all of the schools above are really, really good. Any kid who gains admission to any one of them is blessed. But people here always forget this as they take extreme positions in an effort to distinguish nearly identical schools. [/quote]

I agree this is a dumb exercise and fit and major are what matters. However...

There really aren't a lot of top students going to SLACs these days. This categorization is overvaluing small liberal arts colleges. I do agree though that absolutely nothing is going to topple HYPSM from the top tier. I have two kids at top 20 schools, and the way I'd frame it for this generation of students would be:

Tier 1: MIT, Stanford, Harvard, Princeton, Yale

Tier 2: Penn, CalTech, Duke, Rice, Williams - these schools generally have really exceptional students

Tier 3: Cornell, Dartmouth, Vanderbilt, Columbia, Chicago, Brown, Northwestern, Johns Hopkins, Swarthmore, Pomona, Bowdoin

Tier 4: Georgetown, Notre Dame, Berkeley, Michigan, Carnegie Mellon, Emory, Amherst, WashU, Harvey Mudd

I would add West Point and Annapolis somewhere, but they are peculiar schools and difficult to put into any kind of useful comparison list. [/quote]

Tier 1: MIT, Stanford, Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Caltech

Tier 2: Penn, Duke, Rice, Williams, Cornell, Dartmouth, Vanderbilt, Columbia, Chicago, Brown, Northwestern, Johns Hopkins, Swarthmore, Pomona, Bowdoin, maybe some other schools...
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Would you put Amherst as tier 2[/quote]

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