Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:T15 national - and maybe make a case for a couple that are not T15 like Cornell or CMU or Georgetown

SLACs are wonderful, and I have a DC at a little ivy, and they are receiving a tremendous education. But prestige wise, only T15 national universities matter

Found the CMU alum

And the Georgetown alum.

haha u guys crack me up -

Anonymous wrote:Elite:

HYPSM + Ivies
Chicago
Duke
Northwestern
Caltech
Johns Hopkins
Williams
Amherst

That's it. The rest of the top 20-30 are "top schools" but I would not categorize them as elite.

Skip Duke and Hopkins and I'll buy it.

Elite:

HYPSM + Ivies
Chicago
Duke
Northwestern
Caltech
Johns Hopkins
Williams
Amherst

That's it. The rest of the top 20-30 are "top schools" but I would not categorize them as elite.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:T15 national - and maybe make a case for a couple that are not T15 like Cornell or CMU or Georgetown

SLACs are wonderful, and I have a DC at a little ivy, and they are receiving a tremendous education. But prestige wise, only T15 national universities matter

Found the CMU alum

And the Georgetown alum.

Anonymous wrote:T15 national - and maybe make a case for a couple that are not T15 like Cornell or CMU or Georgetown

SLACs are wonderful, and I have a DC at a little ivy, and they are receiving a tremendous education. But prestige wise, only T15 national universities matter

Found the CMU alum

T15 national - and maybe make a case for a couple that are not T15 like Cornell or CMU or Georgetown

SLACs are wonderful, and I have a DC at a little ivy, and they are receiving a tremendous education. But prestige wise, only T15 national universities matter

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Only 10 top colleges where I work.

Doubt it. I call B.S. because there is no workplace with a diversity initiative (read: all companies) that would allow this.

It would also exclude half of the Ivy League

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Only 10 top colleges where I work.

Doubt it. I call B.S. because there is no workplace with a diversity initiative (read: all companies) that would allow this.

+1 I've worked for consulting agencies that everyone thinks only recruits at select schools and it's BS.

Anonymous wrote:Only 10 top colleges where I work.

Doubt it. I call B.S. because there is no workplace with a diversity initiative (read: all companies) that would allow this.

Only 10 top colleges where I work.

I'm a professor, when I look at grad school apps (which I receive filtered already for our GPA/score cut-offs), I would say there are roughly a group of 50 National Universities and 50 LACs that overlap but don't fully match the USNWR rankings that I treat mentally equivalent in terms of knowing the schools select strong students, the quality of education students received has prepared them well and that a high GPA from their school is meaningful. When I get an application outside those schools, I don't discount it, but I dig into other aspects of the application with greater scrutiny to get a read on academic preparation.

Likely my list of top colleges differs from that of entry-level employers as we are looking for different things.

I think a top college is top 25 national, top 10 LAC; but some people won’t recognize the LAC’s.
Elite is HYPSM

IDK when I think of "top" or "elite" colleges, I think of around 20 or so universities and LACs, not 50 like you said.

No, it doesn’t matter.

There are so many “top colleges” out there, does it really matter where you go aside from the truly top 3-4? Most people would consider the top 25-30 national universities and top 15 or so LACs as good/elite. The problem is that then becomes about 50 schools, which by definition would not make them elite. So does it really matter if you went to a random one in that grouping, like Middlebury, over one just outside it or even further down the top 100 list? Otherwise it’s a lot of squabbling and toxicity over very little incremental difference.