Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Statistically it is wrong to to assign a numerical store to its school because the margin of error of its data sources is greater than the difference of the scores.
They should rank schools in tiers:
1. Super elite tier: HYPMS
2. Elite tier (6 - 15): Columbia, Penn, Chicago, Duke, Brown, Dartmouth, Cornell, ...
3. Top tier (16 - 30): These schools are equals in terms of prestige and rankings -- UVA, Michigan, UCLA, Cal, CMU, Emory, Georgetown, NYU, USC, Georgia Tech ...
4. Wake Forest, W&M ...
Why is Cornell in tier two?
When I encounter graduates, e.g. for hiring, I think of them something like this:
1A) Harvard, Stanford, MIT (these are the ones that will generally be chosen over the ones below, they are the top of the top)
1B) Yale, Princeton, Caltech (will generally be chosen over the ones below but were perhaps not accepted to 1A)
2A) Columbia, Penn, Duke, Chicago, Brown, Dartmouth, Williams, Amherst, Pomona
2B) Northwestern, Rice, Cornell, WashU
3) Vanderbilt, Georgetown, Cal, Michigan, UCLA, NYU, USC, Notre Dame, Emory, UVA, UNC, Boston College, W&M, Wake, etc and a number of LACs (I'm just not going to distinguish much between graduates of these schools for suspected competence or intelligence.
You must be pretty old, or have a strong NE bias, because the students getting into Amherst and Pomona, arent getting, Rice, Vandy, ND, Emory, and Gtown. So you missing out on smarter students because of old New England prestige.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Statistically it is wrong to to assign a numerical store to its school because the margin of error of its data sources is greater than the difference of the scores.
They should rank schools in tiers:
1. Super elite tier: HYPMS
2. Elite tier (6 - 15): Columbia, Penn, Chicago, Duke, Brown, Dartmouth, Cornell, ...
3. Top tier (16 - 30): These schools are equals in terms of prestige and rankings -- UVA, Michigan, UCLA, Cal, CMU, Emory, Georgetown, NYU, USC, Georgia Tech ...
4. Wake Forest, W&M ...
Why is Cornell in tier two?
When I encounter graduates, e.g. for hiring, I think of them something like this:
1A) Harvard, Stanford, MIT (these are the ones that will generally be chosen over the ones below, they are the top of the top)
1B) Yale, Princeton, Caltech (will generally be chosen over the ones below but were perhaps not accepted to 1A)
2A) Columbia, Penn, Duke, Chicago, Brown, Dartmouth, Williams, Amherst, Pomona
2B) Northwestern, Rice, Cornell, WashU
3) Vanderbilt, Georgetown, Cal, Michigan, UCLA, NYU, USC, Notre Dame, Emory, UVA, UNC, Boston College, W&M, Wake, etc and a number of LACs (I'm just not going to distinguish much between graduates of these schools for suspected competence or intelligence.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Statistically it is wrong to to assign a numerical store to its school because the margin of error of its data sources is greater than the difference of the scores.
They should rank schools in tiers:
1. Super elite tier: HYPMS
2. Elite tier (6 - 15): Columbia, Penn, Chicago, Duke, Brown, Dartmouth, Cornell, ...
3. Top tier (16 - 30): These schools are equals in terms of prestige and rankings -- UVA, Michigan, UCLA, Cal, CMU, Emory, Georgetown, NYU, USC, Georgia Tech ...
4. Wake Forest, W&M ...
Why is Cornell in tier two?
First Tier: Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Yale, Princeton, Caltech (even within this, there is an understanding that those admitted to Harvard and Stanford, and perhaps MIT in STEM areas will generally choose those schools over the others)
Second Tier: Columbia, Penn, Duke, Dartmouth, Brown, Chicago
Below second tier, I think it is a lot harder to make distinctions needed for meaningful tiers. Clearly Rice is going to be above Rochester, but it is much more difficult to separate them as the two tiers above. Even on second tier, I'm starting to debate whether to add Williams, Amherst, Pomona, etc.
I wouldn't put Amherst and Williams on Tier 2, maybe 10-20 years ago but not today. Personally to say Columbia, Penn, Chicago, and Duke aren't peers Of HYPSM put Caltech is... is odd.
Tier One- Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, MIT, Columbia, Chicago,
Tier two- Northwestern, Dartmouth, Brown, Johns Hopkins, Duke, Caltech, Penn
Tier three is rather large- Vanderbilt, Cornell, Rice, Notre Dame, Emory, WashU, Georgetown, UCB, UCLA, Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, CMU
3B- UVA, Umich, Tufts, UNC, USC, NYU, Gtech, Bowdoin, Middlebury, Wellesley
Tier 4- Wake, William& M, Rochester, Boston College, Davidson etc
I don't see that clear of distinctions on your tier 3, 3B, 4. A number of those may be great graduate and research universities, but not sure about their commitment to undergraduates. Caltech should be tier 1.
The ones in three are typically ranked 15-20. Some of them aren't 20 right now but have been in the recent past. The ones in 3B are typically 25-30.
Anonymous wrote:I agree with PP’s three categories above. I think Vandy and Notre Dame are not as well known in the northeast and definitely are lumped in category three.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Statistically it is wrong to to assign a numerical store to its school because the margin of error of its data sources is greater than the difference of the scores.
They should rank schools in tiers:
1. Super elite tier: HYPMS
2. Elite tier (6 - 15): Columbia, Penn, Chicago, Duke, Brown, Dartmouth, Cornell, ...
3. Top tier (16 - 30): These schools are equals in terms of prestige and rankings -- UVA, Michigan, UCLA, Cal, CMU, Emory, Georgetown, NYU, USC, Georgia Tech ...
4. Wake Forest, W&M ...
Why is Cornell in tier two?
First Tier: Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Yale, Princeton, Caltech (even within this, there is an understanding that those admitted to Harvard and Stanford, and perhaps MIT in STEM areas will generally choose those schools over the others)
Second Tier: Columbia, Penn, Duke, Dartmouth, Brown, Chicago
Below second tier, I think it is a lot harder to make distinctions needed for meaningful tiers. Clearly Rice is going to be above Rochester, but it is much more difficult to separate them as the two tiers above. Even on second tier, I'm starting to debate whether to add Williams, Amherst, Pomona, etc.
I wouldn't put Amherst and Williams on Tier 2, maybe 10-20 years ago but not today. Personally to say Columbia, Penn, Chicago, and Duke aren't peers Of HYPSM put Caltech is... is odd.
Tier One- Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, MIT, Columbia, Chicago,
Tier two- Northwestern, Dartmouth, Brown, Johns Hopkins, Duke, Caltech, Penn
Tier three is rather large- Vanderbilt, Cornell, Rice, Notre Dame, Emory, WashU, Georgetown, UCB, UCLA, Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, CMU
3B- UVA, Umich, Tufts, UNC, USC, NYU, Gtech, Bowdoin, Middlebury, Wellesley
Tier 4- Wake, William& M, Rochester, Boston College, Davidson etc
Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, Pomona definitely belong in tier 2, and I'd bump Caltech to tier 1 and Chicago to tier 2
I don't agree, I know several students that were rejected or waitlisted to Vandy, Emory, WashU, Rice, CMU and accepted to Amherst, Williams, or Swarthmore to say those latter 3 are better than the former. I think there the same level. And CalTech isn't better than MIT in anything.
That's probably because those schools give a bump to kids who are full pay, while the WASP schools are fully need blind.
You're just speculating. All of these schools are need-blind. The LAC's in my experience have difficulty campaigning non-white students particularly Asian students. That's not the case for major universities especially Emory and Rice. Thus many students may have an easier admittance to Williams than Emory for that reason.
Between Williams and Emory, which will provide the better education? Are outcomes better at one than the other assuming you choose the same major? That is what I think should be considered.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Statistically it is wrong to to assign a numerical store to its school because the margin of error of its data sources is greater than the difference of the scores.
They should rank schools in tiers:
1. Super elite tier: HYPMS
2. Elite tier (6 - 15): Columbia, Penn, Chicago, Duke, Brown, Dartmouth, Cornell, ...
3. Top tier (16 - 30): These schools are equals in terms of prestige and rankings -- UVA, Michigan, UCLA, Cal, CMU, Emory, Georgetown, NYU, USC, Georgia Tech ...
4. Wake Forest, W&M ...
Why is Cornell in tier two?
When I encounter graduates, e.g. for hiring, I think of them something like this:
1A) Harvard, Stanford, MIT (these are the ones that will generally be chosen over the ones below, they are the top of the top)
1B) Yale, Princeton, Caltech (will generally be chosen over the ones below but were perhaps not accepted to 1A)
2A) Columbia, Penn, Duke, Chicago, Brown, Dartmouth, Williams, Amherst, Pomona
2B) Northwestern, Rice, Cornell, WashU
3) Vanderbilt, Georgetown, Cal, Michigan, UCLA, NYU, USC, Notre Dame, Emory, UVA, UNC, Boston College, W&M, Wake, etc and a number of LACs (I'm just not going to distinguish much between graduates of these schools for suspected competence or intelligence.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Statistically it is wrong to to assign a numerical store to its school because the margin of error of its data sources is greater than the difference of the scores.
They should rank schools in tiers:
1. Super elite tier: HYPMS
2. Elite tier (6 - 15): Columbia, Penn, Chicago, Duke, Brown, Dartmouth, Cornell, ...
3. Top tier (16 - 30): These schools are equals in terms of prestige and rankings -- UVA, Michigan, UCLA, Cal, CMU, Emory, Georgetown, NYU, USC, Georgia Tech ...
4. Wake Forest, W&M ...
Why is Cornell in tier two?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Statistically it is wrong to to assign a numerical store to its school because the margin of error of its data sources is greater than the difference of the scores.
They should rank schools in tiers:
1. Super elite tier: HYPMS
2. Elite tier (6 - 15): Columbia, Penn, Chicago, Duke, Brown, Dartmouth, Cornell, ...
3. Top tier (16 - 30): These schools are equals in terms of prestige and rankings -- UVA, Michigan, UCLA, Cal, CMU, Emory, Georgetown, NYU, USC, Georgia Tech ...
4. Wake Forest, W&M ...
Why is Cornell in tier two?
First Tier: Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Yale, Princeton, Caltech (even within this, there is an understanding that those admitted to Harvard and Stanford, and perhaps MIT in STEM areas will generally choose those schools over the others)
Second Tier: Columbia, Penn, Duke, Dartmouth, Brown, Chicago
Below second tier, I think it is a lot harder to make distinctions needed for meaningful tiers. Clearly Rice is going to be above Rochester, but it is much more difficult to separate them as the two tiers above. Even on second tier, I'm starting to debate whether to add Williams, Amherst, Pomona, etc.
I wouldn't put Amherst and Williams on Tier 2, maybe 10-20 years ago but not today. Personally to say Columbia, Penn, Chicago, and Duke aren't peers Of HYPSM put Caltech is... is odd.
Tier One- Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, MIT, Columbia, Chicago,
Tier two- Northwestern, Dartmouth, Brown, Johns Hopkins, Duke, Caltech, Penn
Tier three is rather large- Vanderbilt, Cornell, Rice, Notre Dame, Emory, WashU, Georgetown, UCB, UCLA, Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, CMU
3B- UVA, Umich, Tufts, UNC, USC, NYU, Gtech, Bowdoin, Middlebury, Wellesley
Tier 4- Wake, William& M, Rochester, Boston College, Davidson etc
Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, Pomona definitely belong in tier 2, and I'd bump Caltech to tier 1 and Chicago to tier 2
I don't agree, I know several students that were rejected or waitlisted to Vandy, Emory, WashU, Rice, CMU and accepted to Amherst, Williams, or Swarthmore to say those latter 3 are better than the former. I think there the same level. And CalTech isn't better than MIT in anything.
That's probably because those schools give a bump to kids who are full pay, while the WASP schools are fully need blind.
You're just speculating. All of these schools are need-blind. The LAC's in my experience have difficulty campaigning non-white students particularly Asian students. That's not the case for major universities especially Emory and Rice. Thus many students may have an easier admittance to Williams than Emory for that reason.
Between Williams and Emory, which will provide the better education? Are outcomes better at one than the other assuming you choose the same major? That is what I think should be considered.
lol this is like comparing princeton to rutgers, or yale to uconn. not really a fair comparison.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Statistically it is wrong to to assign a numerical store to its school because the margin of error of its data sources is greater than the difference of the scores.
They should rank schools in tiers:
1. Super elite tier: HYPMS
2. Elite tier (6 - 15): Columbia, Penn, Chicago, Duke, Brown, Dartmouth, Cornell, ...
3. Top tier (16 - 30): These schools are equals in terms of prestige and rankings -- UVA, Michigan, UCLA, Cal, CMU, Emory, Georgetown, NYU, USC, Georgia Tech ...
4. Wake Forest, W&M ...
Why is Cornell in tier two?
First Tier: Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Yale, Princeton, Caltech (even within this, there is an understanding that those admitted to Harvard and Stanford, and perhaps MIT in STEM areas will generally choose those schools over the others)
Second Tier: Columbia, Penn, Duke, Dartmouth, Brown, Chicago
Below second tier, I think it is a lot harder to make distinctions needed for meaningful tiers. Clearly Rice is going to be above Rochester, but it is much more difficult to separate them as the two tiers above. Even on second tier, I'm starting to debate whether to add Williams, Amherst, Pomona, etc.
I wouldn't put Amherst and Williams on Tier 2, maybe 10-20 years ago but not today. Personally to say Columbia, Penn, Chicago, and Duke aren't peers Of HYPSM put Caltech is... is odd.
Tier One- Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, MIT, Columbia, Chicago,
Tier two- Northwestern, Dartmouth, Brown, Johns Hopkins, Duke, Caltech, Penn
Tier three is rather large- Vanderbilt, Cornell, Rice, Notre Dame, Emory, WashU, Georgetown, UCB, UCLA, Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, CMU
3B- UVA, Umich, Tufts, UNC, USC, NYU, Gtech, Bowdoin, Middlebury, Wellesley
Tier 4- Wake, William& M, Rochester, Boston College, Davidson etc
Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, Pomona definitely belong in tier 2, and I'd bump Caltech to tier 1 and Chicago to tier 2
I don't agree, I know several students that were rejected or waitlisted to Vandy, Emory, WashU, Rice, CMU and accepted to Amherst, Williams, or Swarthmore to say those latter 3 are better than the former. I think there the same level. And CalTech isn't better than MIT in anything.
That's probably because those schools give a bump to kids who are full pay, while the WASP schools are fully need blind.
You're just speculating. All of these schools are need-blind. The LAC's in my experience have difficulty campaigning non-white students particularly Asian students. That's not the case for major universities especially Emory and Rice. Thus many students may have an easier admittance to Williams than Emory for that reason.
Between Williams and Emory, which will provide the better education? Are outcomes better at one than the other assuming you choose the same major? That is what I think should be considered.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Statistically it is wrong to to assign a numerical store to its school because the margin of error of its data sources is greater than the difference of the scores.
They should rank schools in tiers:
1. Super elite tier: HYPMS
2. Elite tier (6 - 15): Columbia, Penn, Chicago, Duke, Brown, Dartmouth, Cornell, ...
3. Top tier (16 - 30): These schools are equals in terms of prestige and rankings -- UVA, Michigan, UCLA, Cal, CMU, Emory, Georgetown, NYU, USC, Georgia Tech ...
4. Wake Forest, W&M ...
Why is Cornell in tier two?
First Tier: Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Yale, Princeton, Caltech (even within this, there is an understanding that those admitted to Harvard and Stanford, and perhaps MIT in STEM areas will generally choose those schools over the others)
Second Tier: Columbia, Penn, Duke, Dartmouth, Brown, Chicago
Below second tier, I think it is a lot harder to make distinctions needed for meaningful tiers. Clearly Rice is going to be above Rochester, but it is much more difficult to separate them as the two tiers above. Even on second tier, I'm starting to debate whether to add Williams, Amherst, Pomona, etc.
I wouldn't put Amherst and Williams on Tier 2, maybe 10-20 years ago but not today. Personally to say Columbia, Penn, Chicago, and Duke aren't peers Of HYPSM put Caltech is... is odd.
Tier One- Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, MIT, Columbia, Chicago,
Tier two- Northwestern, Dartmouth, Brown, Johns Hopkins, Duke, Caltech, Penn
Tier three is rather large- Vanderbilt, Cornell, Rice, Notre Dame, Emory, WashU, Georgetown, UCB, UCLA, Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, CMU
3B- UVA, Umich, Tufts, UNC, USC, NYU, Gtech, Bowdoin, Middlebury, Wellesley
Tier 4- Wake, William& M, Rochester, Boston College, Davidson etc
Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, Pomona definitely belong in tier 2, and I'd bump Caltech to tier 1 and Chicago to tier 2
I don't agree, I know several students that were rejected or waitlisted to Vandy, Emory, WashU, Rice, CMU and accepted to Amherst, Williams, or Swarthmore to say those latter 3 are better than the former. I think there the same level. And CalTech isn't better than MIT in anything.
That's probably because those schools give a bump to kids who are full pay, while the WASP schools are fully need blind.
You're just speculating. All of these schools are need-blind. The LAC's in my experience have difficulty campaigning non-white students particularly Asian students. That's not the case for major universities especially Emory and Rice. Thus many students may have an easier admittance to Williams than Emory for that reason.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Statistically it is wrong to to assign a numerical store to its school because the margin of error of its data sources is greater than the difference of the scores.
They should rank schools in tiers:
1. Super elite tier: HYPMS
2. Elite tier (6 - 15): Columbia, Penn, Chicago, Duke, Brown, Dartmouth, Cornell, ...
3. Top tier (16 - 30): These schools are equals in terms of prestige and rankings -- UVA, Michigan, UCLA, Cal, CMU, Emory, Georgetown, NYU, USC, Georgia Tech ...
4. Wake Forest, W&M ...
Why is Cornell in tier two?
First Tier: Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Yale, Princeton, Caltech (even within this, there is an understanding that those admitted to Harvard and Stanford, and perhaps MIT in STEM areas will generally choose those schools over the others)
Second Tier: Columbia, Penn, Duke, Dartmouth, Brown, Chicago
Below second tier, I think it is a lot harder to make distinctions needed for meaningful tiers. Clearly Rice is going to be above Rochester, but it is much more difficult to separate them as the two tiers above. Even on second tier, I'm starting to debate whether to add Williams, Amherst, Pomona, etc.
I wouldn't put Amherst and Williams on Tier 2, maybe 10-20 years ago but not today. Personally to say Columbia, Penn, Chicago, and Duke aren't peers Of HYPSM put Caltech is... is odd.
Tier One- Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, MIT, Columbia, Chicago,
Tier two- Northwestern, Dartmouth, Brown, Johns Hopkins, Duke, Caltech, Penn
Tier three is rather large- Vanderbilt, Cornell, Rice, Notre Dame, Emory, WashU, Georgetown, UCB, UCLA, Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, CMU
3B- UVA, Umich, Tufts, UNC, USC, NYU, Gtech, Bowdoin, Middlebury, Wellesley
Tier 4- Wake, William& M, Rochester, Boston College, Davidson etc
Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, Pomona definitely belong in tier 2, and I'd bump Caltech to tier 1 and Chicago to tier 2
I don't agree, I know several students that were rejected or waitlisted to Vandy, Emory, WashU, Rice, CMU and accepted to Amherst, Williams, or Swarthmore to say those latter 3 are better than the former. I think there the same level. And CalTech isn't better than MIT in anything.
That's probably because those schools give a bump to kids who are full pay, while the WASP schools are fully need blind.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
I'd stop there.
Please do.
Anonymous wrote:This entire thread smells like duck sauce.