Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Best undergraduate
1. Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, MIT, Yale

1b. Columbia, Caltech, Upenn, U Chicago

2. Duke, Northwestern, Johns Hopkins

2b. Dartmouth, Brown

Based on what?

Are you new here?

Anonymous wrote:Ok this is a teen.

Excusable.

Do not assume it is a teen.

At major law firms, plenty of us bantered like this as a way to relieve stress. Plus, insecurity about being the best.

Anonymous wrote:Best undergraduate
1. Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, MIT, Yale

1b. Columbia, Caltech, Upenn, U Chicago

2. Duke, Northwestern, Johns Hopkins

2b. Dartmouth, Brown

Based on what?

There is not a school on that list, nor a ton not mentioned, that will not give your child a stellar education and great career.

Ok this is a teen.

Excusable.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think this is a teen posting. No (mature) adult thinks like this or even cares. Any (mature) adult would care only about what colleges are the best fit for their kids. Why would a ranking like this even matter? It's very juvenile.

Maybe. But PLENTY of "mature adults" think like this, and travel in circles where they desperately need to feel they are at the top and make sure others know about it. It's an odd dichotomy to be rich and successful and adult and still act in a juvenile mindset in many ways, but it is absolutely a thing.

I am an immature adult. I am reading this list because I can't get a hot date for Friday evening. I need to amuse myself somehow.

I’m fascinated by the ranking categories. Why not 1, 2, 3 and 4? Do you really need tiers within 1 and 2? What do they signify? If 2a and 2b are really a realm below 1a and 1b, why sully your list with them?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This list is why your kids are stressed out and messed up over college admissions. Let it go! There is a college for everyone.

LOL are you a CTCL mom?

No. Actually, my kid goes to a LAC in the top 25 or so. Great scores. Could have gone somewhere “better ranked” but was not interested in the competition because high school was crazy competitive.

High schoolitis are we playing ?

OK. Let's play :


Best undergraduate universities :
1. Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, MIT, Yale

1b. Columbia, Caltech, U Chicago, Wharton

2. Dartmouth, Brown

3.) Duke

4.) Penn CAS

Goodbye. Please stop bothering people with this nonsense. Be a mature intellectual and go where you will be happiest.

Anonymous wrote:This list is why your kids are stressed out and messed up over college admissions. Let it go! There is a college for everyone.

LOL are you a CTCL mom?

Anonymous wrote:No...


Best undergraduate, I changed my mind a bit...
1. Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, MIT, Yale

1b. Columbia, Caltech, Upenn, U Chicago

2. Duke, Northwestern, Johns Hopkins, Dartmouth

2b. Brown, Williams, Amherst

3?. Vanderbilt, Cornell, Swarthmore, Rice, Pomona,

3b?. Emory, Notre Dame, WashU, Georgetown, Bowdoin, UCLA, UCB, CMU

4. UVA, Umich, Tufts, Wellesley, USC, UNC, CMC

I think 3 and 3b is splitting hairs.

FFS, the entire list is an exercise in splitting hairs.

Anonymous wrote:OP, why are you like this?

Idk honestly, I got bored.

No...


Best undergraduate, I changed my mind a bit...
1. Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, MIT, Yale

1b. Columbia, Caltech, Upenn, U Chicago

2. Duke, Northwestern, Johns Hopkins, Dartmouth

2b. Brown, Williams, Amherst

3?. Vanderbilt, Cornell, Swarthmore, Rice, Pomona,

3b?. Emory, Notre Dame, WashU, Georgetown, Bowdoin, UCLA, UCB, CMU

4. UVA, Umich, Tufts, Wellesley, USC, UNC, CMC

I think 3 and 3b is splitting hairs.

holy who cares, batman.

Anonymous wrote:Best undergraduate
1. Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, MIT, Yale

1b. Columbia, Caltech, Upenn, U Chicago

2. Duke, Northwestern, Johns Hopkins

2b. Dartmouth, Brown

List is OK except for 1b. FORGET Penn College of Arts and Sciences. It is non-descript, not special at all in its organization, and nothing like the stellar academic input of Columbia or U Chicago for undergraduates. ( Wharton for business is excellent but that is a separate category for business studies).

Also, Dartmouth and Brown are better than Northwestern.