There are around 4,300 degree granting colleges in the US. Of your remove the 2 year colleges from those, that still leaves around 2,800 colleges.
Around 115 are very high output research universities. If you take even the top 25% of these, those would make about 30 universities that are very very elite. What's that list?

If you take the Nine founding members of the AAU from 1900 and then add the private universities that were inducted into this exclusive club before the end of World War II, you would get a list of the 25 or so most elite universities in the US. Then you can add in the elite public universities like Berkeley, Michigan etc. ( Maybe 10+?) , that are also on this list below, which includes all the 64 members


https://www.aau.edu/who-we-are/our-members

Add in 1% ( about 10) of the top Baccalaureate colleges and you have a working list of the very very elite institutions of this country.

Anonymous wrote:I need to know the ranking of T20-T25. The specific rankings. Why is this such a difficult question for you all to understand?

Because it is stupid and a really dumb way for anyone to choose a college.

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Anonymous wrote:For the umpteenth time, the only unambiguously elite colleges in this country are:

HYPSM, UChicago, MIT, Stanford, Duke, Northwestern, Cornell, Brown, Dartmouth, Johns Hopkins, Berkeley, Caltech, Williams, and Amherst.

Way to sneak Berkeley in there. If Williams Amherst And Berkeley are elite so are Vanderbilt, Emory, and a bunch more.

Doesnt HYPSM include Stanford and MIT? So why are they listed again after “HYPSM”

Anonymous wrote:For the umpteenth time, the only unambiguously elite colleges in this country are:

HYPSM, UChicago, MIT, Stanford, Duke, Northwestern, Cornell, Brown, Dartmouth, Johns Hopkins, Berkeley, Caltech, Williams, and Amherst.

Amended to:

HYPSM, Columbia, UPenn, UChicago, MIT, Stanford, Duke, Northwestern, Cornell, Brown, Dartmouth, Johns Hopkins, Berkeley, Caltech, Williams, and Amherst.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For the umpteenth time, the only unambiguously elite colleges in this country are:

HYPSM, UChicago, MIT, Stanford, Duke, Northwestern, Cornell, Brown, Dartmouth, Johns Hopkins, Berkeley, Caltech, Williams, and Amherst.

Agree. Everything else is the next tier down.

This is missing Columbia, but otherwise totally agree!

Bah, of course. Columbia definitely.

The top 25 unis and top 5 LACs are the elite schools in the country.

Anonymous wrote:I need to know the ranking of T20-T25. The specific rankings. Why is this such a difficult question for you all to understand?

Because your questions make no sense. The specific rankings of “T20-T25” would be… 20-25.

Anonymous wrote:For the umpteenth time, the only unambiguously elite colleges in this country are:

HYPSM, UChicago, MIT, Stanford, Duke, Northwestern, Cornell, Brown, Dartmouth, Johns Hopkins, Berkeley, Caltech, Williams, and Amherst.

Way to sneak Berkeley in there. If Williams Amherst And Berkeley are elite so are Vanderbilt, Emory, and a bunch more.

I need to know the ranking of T20-T25. The specific rankings. Why is this such a difficult question for you all to understand?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For the umpteenth time, the only unambiguously elite colleges in this country are:

HYPSM, UChicago, MIT, Stanford, Duke, Northwestern, Cornell, Brown, Dartmouth, Johns Hopkins, Berkeley, Caltech, Williams, and Amherst.

Agree. Everything else is the next tier down.

This is missing Columbia, but otherwise totally agree!

Elite colleges: The ones that accepted your kid

Underrated colleges: The ones your kids attend

Bad colleges: The ones who rejected your kid (YIELD PROTECTION)

Anonymous wrote:For the umpteenth time, the only unambiguously elite colleges in this country are:

HYPSM, UChicago, MIT, Stanford, Duke, Northwestern, Cornell, Brown, Dartmouth, Johns Hopkins, Berkeley, Caltech, Williams, and Amherst.

Agree. Everything else is the next tier down.

For the umpteenth time, the only unambiguously elite colleges in this country are:

HYPSM, UChicago, MIT, Stanford, Duke, Northwestern, Cornell, Brown, Dartmouth, Johns Hopkins, Berkeley, Caltech, Williams, and Amherst.

I am mostly curious about the ones T20-T25. They sometimes get mentioned.

Also where do SLAC T5 and T10 fit in?