Anonymous
11/24/2025 22:21
Subject: If the Ivy label never existed, what are the true top 10 best U.S. colleges in your mind?
Anonymous wrote:Caltech
Princeton
MIT
Harvard
Yale
Stanford
Reed
Berkeley
UChicago
Williams
Btw this list is based on academics
Anonymous
11/24/2025 22:20
Subject: If the Ivy label never existed, what are the true top 10 best U.S. colleges in your mind?
Caltech
Princeton
MIT
Harvard
Yale
Stanford
Reed
Berkeley
UChicago
Williams
Princeton
MIT
Harvard
Yale
Stanford
Reed
Berkeley
UChicago
Williams
Anonymous
11/24/2025 21:09
Subject: If the Ivy label never existed, what are the true top 10 best U.S. colleges in your mind?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Any test optional/test blind school cannot be a top 10 undergraduate.
HYPMS
Caltech
Penn
JHU
Cornell
Rice
Fair
Anonymous
11/24/2025 21:07
Subject: If the Ivy label never existed, what are the true top 10 best U.S. colleges in your mind?
Anonymous wrote:Pretend you are USNWR and take into consideration all popular majors and the criteria most important to you.
The ask is which are your top 10 if Ivy prestige is not a factor.
Based on research availability to undergrads, small classes and student smarts (pre and post TO absolute #of entering freshman 1530+), top job placement, top JD/MD/PhD placement
MIT
Caltech
Stanford
Princeton
UPenn
Harvard
UCB
Yale
Duke
Hopkins
Anonymous
11/24/2025 20:06
Subject: If the Ivy label never existed, what are the true top 10 best U.S. colleges in your mind?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:1) Uchicago
2) CalTech
2) Reed
3) Princeton
4) Deep Springs (but it's not a 4-year), Swarthmore
5) Harvey Mudd
6) Amherst
7) Williams or Pomona
8) Pomona or Williams
9) Berkeley
10) St Johns
I tend to personally rank STEM-heavy colleges lower on the intellectual component, but even I can admit Caltech is deeply committed to science and progress in a way that most colleges with career-hungry stem students aren't.
My main criteria is an intellectual atmosphere that emphasizes rigor aka ... a college.
Shut up.
No. You can just carry on your life instead of throwing tantrums when you don’t like something!
You prefer to trash the intelligence of students and rigor of STEM coursework to make feel better about your humanities degree? WTH?
Anonymous
11/24/2025 20:00
Subject: If the Ivy label never existed, what are the true top 10 best U.S. colleges in your mind?
Just admit you're poor and classless.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Williams
Amherst
Princeton
Dartmouth
Carleton
Pomona
Middlebury
Davidson
Rice
Wake Forest
What a ridiculous list of unemployment.
Anonymous
11/24/2025 20:00
Subject: If the Ivy label never existed, what are the true top 10 best U.S. colleges in your mind?
Anonymous wrote:Any test optional/test blind school cannot be a top 10 undergraduate.
HYPMS
Caltech
Penn
JHU
Cornell
Rice
Anonymous
11/24/2025 19:57
Subject: If the Ivy label never existed, what are the true top 10 best U.S. colleges in your mind?
Any test optional/test blind school cannot be a top 10 undergraduate.
Anonymous
11/24/2025 19:15
Subject: If the Ivy label never existed, what are the true top 10 best U.S. colleges in your mind?
Anonymous wrote:Williams
Amherst
Princeton
Dartmouth
Carleton
Pomona
Middlebury
Davidson
Rice
Wake Forest
I like this list too. Wake Forest is a question mark tho ...
Anonymous
11/24/2025 19:15
Subject: If the Ivy label never existed, what are the true top 10 best U.S. colleges in your mind?
UVA
Bucknell
Bucknell
Anonymous
11/24/2025 19:12
Subject: If the Ivy label never existed, what are the true top 10 best U.S. colleges in your mind?
Anonymous wrote:“Best” is a vague and useless term, unless you define your criteria.
Read the words. OP said in your mind and using your criteria
Anonymous
11/24/2025 19:10
Subject: If the Ivy label never existed, what are the true top 10 best U.S. colleges in your mind?
Reed
Williams
Caltech
Berkeley
Texas
Rice
Yale
Princeton
MIT
Cornell
Different schools for different reasons. For example, Texas does an excellent job educating in-state residents with the way their admissions works and Cornell has an exceptional engineering program for an Ivy.
Williams
Caltech
Berkeley
Texas
Rice
Yale
Princeton
MIT
Cornell
Different schools for different reasons. For example, Texas does an excellent job educating in-state residents with the way their admissions works and Cornell has an exceptional engineering program for an Ivy.
Anonymous
11/24/2025 19:04
Subject: If the Ivy label never existed, what are the true top 10 best U.S. colleges in your mind?
Anonymous wrote:Williams
Amherst
Princeton
Dartmouth
Carleton
Pomona
Middlebury
Davidson
Rice
Wake Forest
What a ridiculous list of unemployment.
Anonymous
11/24/2025 18:58
Subject: If the Ivy label never existed, what are the true top 10 best U.S. colleges in your mind?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Harvard
MIT
Caltech
Princeton
Berkeley EECS or PhD
Why even rank Berkeley?
Berkeley EECS != Berkeley entirely
Perhaps EECS should just separate from Berkeley, and stick to proper admission criteria
Anonymous
11/24/2025 18:57
Subject: If the Ivy label never existed, what are the true top 10 best U.S. colleges in your mind?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Harvard
MIT
Caltech
Princeton
Berkeley EECS or PhD
Why even rank Berkeley?
Berkeley EECS != Berkeley entirely