Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As someone who is local, here is how things tier out in my mind (each row is its own tier, not ranked within each tier) - also, didn't include state schools or schools outside of the metro Boston area:

Harvard/MIT
BC/BU/Tufts/Wellesley/Babson
Northeastern/Bentley/Brandeis
(Deliberate space here)
Anything else you've barely heard of - Suffolk, Merrimack, Curry, Simmons, Lesley, Stonehill, Endicott

* Emerson, Berklee, Wentworth, MCPHS are specialized in my mind so I didn't rank them. I never know where to put Wheaton.

Merrimack has D1 sports which gives them more name recognition than some of the others.

Some very nice campuses on a lot of those schools. Most just don’t generate a lot of attention out of the New England area.

+1

Anonymous wrote:As someone who is local, here is how things tier out in my mind (each row is its own tier, not ranked within each tier) - also, didn't include state schools or schools outside of the metro Boston area:

Harvard/MIT
BC/BU/Tufts/Wellesley/Babson
Northeastern/Bentley/Brandeis
(Deliberate space here)
Anything else you've barely heard of - Suffolk, Merrimack, Curry, Simmons, Lesley, Stonehill, Endicott

* Emerson, Berklee, Wentworth, MCPHS are specialized in my mind so I didn't rank them. I never know where to put Wheaton.

Merrimack has D1 sports which gives them more name recognition than some of the others.

Some very nice campuses on a lot of those schools. Most just don’t generate a lot of attention out of the New England area.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NP just got me curious- for all of Boston and MA's reputation being full of good schools and colleges, why is its only state flagship UMass ranked so low? Did it used to be better in the past or was is always a mediocre??

Umass-Amhest hasn't attracted the top students in MA - it is changing based on the last few years so hopefully that'll boost it's profile. It long had a reputation of ZooMass, a total party school that you only went to if you had no other choice or your parents wouldn't pony up for a private.

This PP doesn't know what they're talking about. UMass Boston was NEVER known as ZooMass - that was the flagship, in Amherst all the way across the state. Its reputation has improved since those days. UMass Boston was always smaller, quirkier, much more heavily a commuter school.

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here’s the hierarchy of schools, at least when I went to MIT in early 2000s. I’d rank based on how much people want to go to that specific school and what schools mixed with each other.

Harvard MIT
Wellesley
BC
Tufts Brandeis
BU
Northeastern
UMASS Boston, Emerson, Lesley, etc


Berkelee music in its own category
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Who cares about 20 years ago[/quote]

Uh, this is the list serv for DC moms and dads. So most people posting went to these schools 15-20 years ago. Plus I think it’s pretty much the same, no matter how much the NE and Tufts boosters are going crazy on here.[/quote]

I went to college 11 years ago and this list resonates.

Anonymous wrote:Harvard / MIT
Tufts / Wellesley
BC
BU / Northeastern

This list makes sense to me.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NP just got me curious- for all of Boston and MA's reputation being full of good schools and colleges, why is its only state flagship UMass ranked so low? Did it used to be better in the past or was is always a mediocre??

Umass-Amhest hasn't attracted the top students in MA - it is changing based on the last few years so hopefully that'll boost it's profile. It long had a reputation of ZooMass, a total party school that you only went to if you had no other choice or your parents wouldn't pony up for a private.

It’s pretty expensive for a public at $16k/year in tuition alone

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here’s the hierarchy of schools, at least when I went to MIT in early 2000s. I’d rank based on how much people want to go to that specific school and what schools mixed with each other.

Harvard MIT
Wellesley
BC
Tufts Brandeis
BU
Northeastern
UMASS Boston, Emerson, Lesley, etc


Berkelee music in its own category
[/quote]

Who cares about 20 years ago[/quote]

Uh, this is the list serv for DC moms and dads. So most people posting went to these schools 15-20 years ago. Plus I think it’s pretty much the same, no matter how much the NE and Tufts boosters are going crazy on here.

Anonymous wrote:

Tufts
BC/Northeastern
BU
The others

No way - Northeastern is not on the same level as BC (and I have no vested interest in BC, but having gone through the application process twice recently, am convinced that Northeastern is falsely inflated).

Tufts/BC
Northeastern
BU

Tuftfs/BC/BU
Northeastern

https://www.aau.edu/who-we-are/our-members

Anonymous wrote:NP just got me curious- for all of Boston and MA's reputation being full of good schools and colleges, why is its only state flagship UMass ranked so low? Did it used to be better in the past or was is always a mediocre??

Umass-Amhest hasn't attracted the top students in MA - it is changing based on the last few years so hopefully that'll boost it's profile. It long had a reputation of ZooMass, a total party school that you only went to if you had no other choice or your parents wouldn't pony up for a private.

Anonymous wrote:Harvard/MIT
Tufts
Wellesley
Olin (hard to place because so niche and so small)
Boston C
Brandeis
Northeastern
Boston U
Babson
Bentley
UMass-Boston
Emerson
the rest

Berklee is amazing but belongs in a ranking with like schools

I might move Emerson up a couple of places, but on the whole this gets it right.

Anonymous wrote:NP just got me curious- for all of Boston and MA's reputation being full of good schools and colleges, why is its only state flagship UMass ranked so low? Did it used to be better in the past or was is always a mediocre??

The state flagship is located in Amherst, several hours away from Boston. UMass Boston is a high quality commuter school.

NP just got me curious- for all of Boston and MA's reputation being full of good schools and colleges, why is its only state flagship UMass ranked so low? Did it used to be better in the past or was is always a mediocre??

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As someone from Boston who graduated from one of the schools in everyone’s top tier color me shocked that NE is even on anyone’s list

Agree…when I graduated from a Boston school NE was a joke at the over drinks. Not sure why it is so regarded now.

Just like UPenn, Vanderbilt, UChicago, etc all had 50 60 70% acceptance rate baack in the days. Ok.

Anonymous wrote:

Tufts
BC/Northeastern
BU
The others

No way - Northeastern is not on the same level as BC (and I have no vested interest in BC, but having gone through the application process twice recently, am convinced that Northeastern is falsely inflated).

Tufts/BC
Northeastern
BU

Who would choose BC over Northeastern for the real majors CS and engineering.

Anonymous wrote:As someone from Boston who graduated from one of the schools in everyone’s top tier color me shocked that NE is even on anyone’s list

Agree…when I graduated from a Boston school NE was a joke at the over drinks. Not sure why it is so regarded now.