Anonymous wrote:in terms of education rigor, quality of peer group, faculty, campus experience, research opportunities, employment outcome, networks…but just not as prestigious? We want very high-stat DC to apply to the best quality schools without wasting REA/ED for the brand name
There have been many studies that look at outcomes at elites vs other schools. The elite schools that show superior outcomes are the so called ivy-plus schools defined by many studies as the 8 ivies plus Stanford MIT Duke UChicago.
10 of these 12 schools also happen to all have top SAT ranges in the pre-test optional era, with the note that Columbia never released SAT ranges when they were required and UChcago has been test optional for a long time.