Anonymous
07/08/2025 21:16
Subject: When people refer to top 20 and top 25 schools what are they?
Anonymous wrote:These are the 30 universities that make up the top 20
MIT
Stanford
Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Penn
Duke
Northwestern
Cornell
Vanderbilt
Dartmouth
Chicago
Rice
CalTech
Brown
Columbia
Johns Hopkins
Notre Dame
Michigan
Berkeley
Georgetown
UVA
UCLA
Emory
Texas
Carnegie Mellon
WashU
USC
NYU
Georgia Tech
Some people also include LACs and service academies. Those would include
West Point
Annapolis
Williams
Pomona
Amherst
Swarthmore
Harvey Mudd
Bowdoin
Claremont McKenna
Air Force
Collectively, these are the 40 colleges that constitute the top 20
Yes this is right
Anonymous
07/08/2025 14:44
Subject: When people refer to top 20 and top 25 schools what are they?
Here are the latest US news reputation rankings. Iโd say these are about right.
4.8- HYPSM
4.7- Johns Hopkins
4.6- Caltech, Cornell, U Chicago, UC Berkeley
4.5- Duke, Upenn, Brown, Columbia
4.4- Northwestern, UCLA, Carnegie Mellon, Umich
4.3- Dartmouth, Vanderbilt
4.2- Rice, Notre Dame, Emory, Georgetown, UVA
4.1- WashU, UNC, NYU
4.0- USC
3.9- UC San Diego
4.8- HYPSM
4.7- Johns Hopkins
4.6- Caltech, Cornell, U Chicago, UC Berkeley
4.5- Duke, Upenn, Brown, Columbia
4.4- Northwestern, UCLA, Carnegie Mellon, Umich
4.3- Dartmouth, Vanderbilt
4.2- Rice, Notre Dame, Emory, Georgetown, UVA
4.1- WashU, UNC, NYU
4.0- USC
3.9- UC San Diego
Anonymous
07/08/2025 14:21
Subject: When people refer to top 20 and top 25 schools what are they?
Make your own damn 20!
Anonymous
07/08/2025 12:50
Subject: When people refer to top 20 and top 25 schools what are they?
Top 20 schools include:
1. The school my kid is attending
2. The schools accepted my kid
3. The schools my kid likes a lot but didnโt apply to.
4. The schools my kid didnโt apply to, neutral feeling, but otherwise in US News T20
1. The school my kid is attending
2. The schools accepted my kid
3. The schools my kid likes a lot but didnโt apply to.
4. The schools my kid didnโt apply to, neutral feeling, but otherwise in US News T20
Anonymous
07/08/2025 12:42
Subject: When people refer to top 20 and top 25 schools what are they?
Anonymous wrote:These are the 30 universities that make up the top 20
MIT
Stanford
Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Penn
Duke
Northwestern
Cornell
Vanderbilt
Dartmouth
Chicago
Rice
CalTech
Brown
Columbia
Johns Hopkins
Notre Dame
Michigan
Berkeley
Georgetown
UVA
UCLA
Emory
Texas
Carnegie Mellon
WashU
USC
NYU
Georgia Tech
Some people also include LACs and service academies. Those would include
West Point
Annapolis
Williams
Pomona
Amherst
Swarthmore
Harvey Mudd
Bowdoin
Claremont McKenna
Air Force
Collectively, these are the 40 colleges that constitute the top 20
40 for top 20. Very DCUM.
Anonymous
01/28/2025 08:26
Subject: When people refer to top 20 and top 25 schools what are they?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Nationally most people would think NYU and USC are more prestigious than UVA. Not many would think UCLA and Emroy are more prestigious than NYU or USC.
Most people are not elite themselves to be able to get into any of these schools. It's also dependent on income and class. Private school students will quickly think Emory and UCLA are more prestigious. Here's Based an example...
https://www.reddit.com/r/ApplyingToCollege/s/0cxYjK3aEU
For US news reputation scores, UCLA and Emory/UVA are seen more favorably than NYU and USC (4.4, 4.2, 4.0, 3.9 respectively). Emory/UVA have more impressive graduates and Lastly, Emory has more elite peers schools than NYU and USC when looking at which schools choose each other as peers.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/who-does-your-college-think-its-peers-are?sra=true
What is this??
First link has less than 10 people with subjective mixed views.
On the second link, only WashU, Vanderbilt, and Northwestern selected Emory as a peer.
For NYU - WashU, Vanderbilt, Northwestern, CalTech, Notre Dame, Rice, CMU etc.
For USC - WashU, Vanderbilt, Northwestern, Rice, CMU, etc.
Looks like WashU, Vanderbilt, Northwestern choose pretty much everyone.
Do you even understand the link? Is this the level of Emory intelligence?
No, seems like you don't. If you toggle to "Who chose this college" instead of "Who this college chose" Of course NYU chose Stanford and Stanford didn't chose them back ๐.
Just like Emory chose Duke but Duke says F off lol.
What don't you get it??
Reputation score
Emory- 4.2
NYU- 4.0
USC-3.9
0.2 point makes Emory another level on what basis?
Yes. Mind you Dartmouth is a 4.3, Northwestern a 4.4, Duke a 4.5. A 4.2 means 20% of respondants give Emory a perfect 5.
Duke and Dartmouth has 0.2 difference.
Emory and NYU has 0.2 difference.
So WTF is your poiint.
Exactly I dont see many on here who think Duke and Dartmouth are peers. If you do then okay I understand, you're more generous.
If you are obsessed with every single digit related to college ranking okay I understand.
BTW where do I see the current numbers? Looks like Emory was tied with UNC a couple of years ago from a quick google.
Also WashU, Vanderbilt, Northwestern, CalTech, Notre Dame, Rice didn't chose UCLA while they chose NYU.
Cornell and CMU are the only noticeable ones that chose UCLA.
Anonymous
01/27/2025 20:59
Subject: When people refer to top 20 and top 25 schools what are they?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Nationally most people would think NYU and USC are more prestigious than UVA. Not many would think UCLA and Emroy are more prestigious than NYU or USC.
Most people are not elite themselves to be able to get into any of these schools. It's also dependent on income and class. Private school students will quickly think Emory and UCLA are more prestigious. Here's Based an example...
https://www.reddit.com/r/ApplyingToCollege/s/0cxYjK3aEU
For US news reputation scores, UCLA and Emory/UVA are seen more favorably than NYU and USC (4.4, 4.2, 4.0, 3.9 respectively). Emory/UVA have more impressive graduates and Lastly, Emory has more elite peers schools than NYU and USC when looking at which schools choose each other as peers.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/who-does-your-college-think-its-peers-are?sra=true
What is this??
First link has less than 10 people with subjective mixed views.
On the second link, only WashU, Vanderbilt, and Northwestern selected Emory as a peer.
For NYU - WashU, Vanderbilt, Northwestern, CalTech, Notre Dame, Rice, CMU etc.
For USC - WashU, Vanderbilt, Northwestern, Rice, CMU, etc.
Looks like WashU, Vanderbilt, Northwestern choose pretty much everyone.
Do you even understand the link? Is this the level of Emory intelligence?
No, seems like you don't. If you toggle to "Who chose this college" instead of "Who this college chose" Of course NYU chose Stanford and Stanford didn't chose them back ๐.
Just like Emory chose Duke but Duke says F off lol.
What don't you get it??
Reputation score
Emory- 4.2
NYU- 4.0
USC-3.9
0.2 point makes Emory another level on what basis?
Yes. Mind you Dartmouth is a 4.3, Northwestern a 4.4, Duke a 4.5. A 4.2 means 20% of respondants give Emory a perfect 5.
Duke and Dartmouth has 0.2 difference.
Emory and NYU has 0.2 difference.
So WTF is your poiint.
Exactly I dont see many on here who think Duke and Dartmouth are peers. If you do then okay I understand, you're more generous.
Duke and Dartmouth are very different but I wouldn't say one is better than the other.
Anonymous
01/27/2025 18:27
Subject: When people refer to top 20 and top 25 schools what are they?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Nationally most people would think NYU and USC are more prestigious than UVA. Not many would think UCLA and Emroy are more prestigious than NYU or USC.
Most people are not elite themselves to be able to get into any of these schools. It's also dependent on income and class. Private school students will quickly think Emory and UCLA are more prestigious. Here's Based an example...
https://www.reddit.com/r/ApplyingToCollege/s/0cxYjK3aEU
For US news reputation scores, UCLA and Emory/UVA are seen more favorably than NYU and USC (4.4, 4.2, 4.0, 3.9 respectively). Emory/UVA have more impressive graduates and Lastly, Emory has more elite peers schools than NYU and USC when looking at which schools choose each other as peers.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/who-does-your-college-think-its-peers-are?sra=true
What is this??
First link has less than 10 people with subjective mixed views.
On the second link, only WashU, Vanderbilt, and Northwestern selected Emory as a peer.
For NYU - WashU, Vanderbilt, Northwestern, CalTech, Notre Dame, Rice, CMU etc.
For USC - WashU, Vanderbilt, Northwestern, Rice, CMU, etc.
Looks like WashU, Vanderbilt, Northwestern choose pretty much everyone.
Do you even understand the link? Is this the level of Emory intelligence?
No, seems like you don't. If you toggle to "Who chose this college" instead of "Who this college chose" Of course NYU chose Stanford and Stanford didn't chose them back ๐.
Just like Emory chose Duke but Duke says F off lol.
What don't you get it??
Reputation score
Emory- 4.2
NYU- 4.0
USC-3.9
0.2 point makes Emory another level on what basis?
Yes. Mind you Dartmouth is a 4.3, Northwestern a 4.4, Duke a 4.5. A 4.2 means 20% of respondants give Emory a perfect 5.
Duke and Dartmouth has 0.2 difference.
Emory and NYU has 0.2 difference.
So WTF is your poiint.
Exactly I dont see many on here who think Duke and Dartmouth are peers. If you do then okay I understand, you're more generous.
Anonymous
01/27/2025 16:07
Subject: When people refer to top 20 and top 25 schools what are they?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Nationally most people would think NYU and USC are more prestigious than UVA. Not many would think UCLA and Emroy are more prestigious than NYU or USC.
Most people are not elite themselves to be able to get into any of these schools. It's also dependent on income and class. Private school students will quickly think Emory and UCLA are more prestigious. Here's Based an example...
https://www.reddit.com/r/ApplyingToCollege/s/0cxYjK3aEU
For US news reputation scores, UCLA and Emory/UVA are seen more favorably than NYU and USC (4.4, 4.2, 4.0, 3.9 respectively). Emory/UVA have more impressive graduates and Lastly, Emory has more elite peers schools than NYU and USC when looking at which schools choose each other as peers.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/who-does-your-college-think-its-peers-are?sra=true
What is this??
First link has less than 10 people with subjective mixed views.
On the second link, only WashU, Vanderbilt, and Northwestern selected Emory as a peer.
For NYU - WashU, Vanderbilt, Northwestern, CalTech, Notre Dame, Rice, CMU etc.
For USC - WashU, Vanderbilt, Northwestern, Rice, CMU, etc.
Looks like WashU, Vanderbilt, Northwestern choose pretty much everyone.
Do you even understand the link? Is this the level of Emory intelligence?
No, seems like you don't. If you toggle to "Who chose this college" instead of "Who this college chose" Of course NYU chose Stanford and Stanford didn't chose them back ๐.
Just like Emory chose Duke but Duke says F off lol.
What don't you get it??
Reputation score
Emory- 4.2
NYU- 4.0
USC-3.9
0.2 point makes Emory another level on what basis?
Yes. Mind you Dartmouth is a 4.3, Northwestern a 4.4, Duke a 4.5. A 4.2 means 20% of respondants give Emory a perfect 5.
Duke and Dartmouth has 0.2 difference.
Emory and NYU has 0.2 difference.
So WTF is your poiint.
Anonymous
01/27/2025 13:30
Subject: When people refer to top 20 and top 25 schools what are they?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Nationally most people would think NYU and USC are more prestigious than UVA. Not many would think UCLA and Emroy are more prestigious than NYU or USC.
Most people are not elite themselves to be able to get into any of these schools. It's also dependent on income and class. Private school students will quickly think Emory and UCLA are more prestigious. Here's Based an example...
https://www.reddit.com/r/ApplyingToCollege/s/0cxYjK3aEU
For US news reputation scores, UCLA and Emory/UVA are seen more favorably than NYU and USC (4.4, 4.2, 4.0, 3.9 respectively). Emory/UVA have more impressive graduates and Lastly, Emory has more elite peers schools than NYU and USC when looking at which schools choose each other as peers.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/who-does-your-college-think-its-peers-are?sra=true
What is this??
First link has less than 10 people with subjective mixed views.
On the second link, only WashU, Vanderbilt, and Northwestern selected Emory as a peer.
For NYU - WashU, Vanderbilt, Northwestern, CalTech, Notre Dame, Rice, CMU etc.
For USC - WashU, Vanderbilt, Northwestern, Rice, CMU, etc.
Looks like WashU, Vanderbilt, Northwestern choose pretty much everyone.
Do you even understand the link? Is this the level of Emory intelligence?
No, seems like you don't. If you toggle to "Who chose this college" instead of "Who this college chose" Of course NYU chose Stanford and Stanford didn't chose them back ๐.
Just like Emory chose Duke but Duke says F off lol.
What don't you get it??
Reputation score
Emory- 4.2
NYU- 4.0
USC-3.9
0.2 point makes Emory another level on what basis?
Yes. Mind you Dartmouth is a 4.3, Northwestern a 4.4, Duke a 4.5. A 4.2 means 20% of respondants give Emory a perfect 5.
So If Emory and USC are peers. Then Emory and Northwestern are peers to.
Anonymous
01/27/2025 13:27
Subject: Re:When people refer to top 20 and top 25 schools what are they?
This is delusion. If USC was better it would show. Until you find those make beileve students, we'll stick to the rankings.Anonymous wrote:This Emory booster is becoming almost funny. I don't think most kids would consider Emory in the same league as USC or UCLA. And might not even feel that way about Emory compared to UVA, UNC, NYU.
Anonymous
01/27/2025 13:19
Subject: When people refer to top 20 and top 25 schools what are they?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Nationally most people would think NYU and USC are more prestigious than UVA. Not many would think UCLA and Emroy are more prestigious than NYU or USC.
Most people are not elite themselves to be able to get into any of these schools. It's also dependent on income and class. Private school students will quickly think Emory and UCLA are more prestigious. Here's Based an example...
https://www.reddit.com/r/ApplyingToCollege/s/0cxYjK3aEU
For US news reputation scores, UCLA and Emory/UVA are seen more favorably than NYU and USC (4.4, 4.2, 4.0, 3.9 respectively). Emory/UVA have more impressive graduates and Lastly, Emory has more elite peers schools than NYU and USC when looking at which schools choose each other as peers.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/who-does-your-college-think-its-peers-are?sra=true
What is this??
First link has less than 10 people with subjective mixed views.
On the second link, only WashU, Vanderbilt, and Northwestern selected Emory as a peer.
For NYU - WashU, Vanderbilt, Northwestern, CalTech, Notre Dame, Rice, CMU etc.
For USC - WashU, Vanderbilt, Northwestern, Rice, CMU, etc.
Looks like WashU, Vanderbilt, Northwestern choose pretty much everyone.
Do you even understand the link? Is this the level of Emory intelligence?
No, seems like you don't. If you toggle to "Who chose this college" instead of "Who this college chose" Of course NYU chose Stanford and Stanford didn't chose them back ๐.
Just like Emory chose Duke but Duke says F off lol.
What don't you get it??
Reputation score
Emory- 4.2
NYU- 4.0
USC-3.9
0.2 point makes Emory another level on what basis?
Yes. Mind you Dartmouth is a 4.3, Northwestern a 4.4, Duke a 4.5. A 4.2 means 20% of respondants give Emory a perfect 5.
Anonymous
01/27/2025 13:13
Subject: When people refer to top 20 and top 25 schools what are they?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:NYU, USC, UVA, Tufts, BC, Gatech, UNC are its own teir a step below Emory and UCLA.
Parents and students don't think so. Emory and UCLA are more like peers to NYU and USC, and even Tufts
I'd say UCLA is definitively > USC and probably on equal ground with NYU and I suppose Emory, as well.
Anonymous
01/27/2025 11:46
Subject: Re:When people refer to top 20 and top 25 schools what are they?
This Emory booster is becoming almost funny. I don't think most kids would consider Emory in the same league as USC or UCLA. And might not even feel that way about Emory compared to UVA, UNC, NYU.
Anonymous
01/27/2025 11:44
Subject: When people refer to top 20 and top 25 schools what are they?
The same students who apply to Emory generally donโt apply to GA Tech- unless theyโre GA residents and applying to all the top options in-state