Anonymous
12/05/2023 14:33
Subject: College tiers?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Tier 1 - HPSM (tops academically at everything, no special recruitment tactics needed)
Tier 2 - Caltech, UPenn, Duke, Yale, Columbia (great academically at vast majority of things, highly desirable but still employ some special recruitment tactics to compete with Tier 1)
Tier 3 - Brown, Dartmouth, UChicago, Northwestern, Johns Hopkins, Vanderbilt, Rice, Berkeley, UCLA, Georgetown, UMich, Cornell, Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, Pomona, Bowdoin, Harvey Mudd, Olin College of Engineering (great academically at many things, slightly less desirable than previous tiers and slightly worse undergrad outcomes)
Tier 4 - UVA, NYU, UNC, Georgia Tech, USC, CMU, WUSTL, Emory, Carleton, Wellesley, Wesleyan, Middlebury, Claremont McKenna, Barnard, Davidson, Grinnell…
Holy Fs! Until I saw this list I didn’t realize the U.S. armed forces officers are dumb arses! OP, thank you for opening my eyes.
The top military institutions are probably tier 3 or 4 based on OP’s list
Anonymous
12/05/2023 11:20
Subject: College tiers?
Anonymous wrote:Tier 1 - HPSM (tops academically at everything, no special recruitment tactics needed)
Tier 2 - Caltech, UPenn, Duke, Yale, Columbia (great academically at vast majority of things, highly desirable but still employ some special recruitment tactics to compete with Tier 1)
Tier 3 - Brown, Dartmouth, UChicago, Northwestern, Johns Hopkins, Vanderbilt, Rice, Berkeley, UCLA, Georgetown, UMich, Cornell, Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, Pomona, Bowdoin, Harvey Mudd, Olin College of Engineering (great academically at many things, slightly less desirable than previous tiers and slightly worse undergrad outcomes)
Tier 4 - UVA, NYU, UNC, Georgia Tech, USC, CMU, WUSTL, Emory, Carleton, Wellesley, Wesleyan, Middlebury, Claremont McKenna, Barnard, Davidson, Grinnell…
Holy Fs! Until I saw this list I didn’t realize the U.S. armed forces officers are dumb arses! OP, thank you for opening my eyes.
Anonymous
12/05/2023 07:28
Subject: College tiers?
Anonymous wrote:I may be wrong, but I had assumed it was newcomers to the U.S. driving this.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:DCUM obsession with prestige is so exhausting. Everything must be ranked and hierarchical.
Welcome to the U.S.A.
There is a higher percentage of those new to the country who are misinformed about how the college attended affects outcomes, but really prestige obsession is distributed pretty well across the spectrum of Americans. It's truly sad.
Anonymous
12/05/2023 07:23
Subject: College tiers?
I like the Tiers OP created and see a lot of truth in them.
Anonymous
12/05/2023 07:05
Subject: College tiers?
Tier one: mullet, pompadour
Tier two: buzz cut, shag, quiff
Tier three: fauxhawk, bowl cut, Sean Cassidy feathers
Tier four: comb-over
Tier two: buzz cut, shag, quiff
Tier three: fauxhawk, bowl cut, Sean Cassidy feathers
Tier four: comb-over
Anonymous
12/05/2023 00:56
Subject: College tiers?
Anonymous wrote:Tier 1 - HPSM (tops academically at everything, no special recruitment tactics needed)
Tier 2 - Caltech, UPenn, Duke, Yale, Columbia (great academically at vast majority of things, highly desirable but still employ some special recruitment tactics to compete with Tier 1)
Tier 3 - Brown, Dartmouth, UChicago, Northwestern, Johns Hopkins, Vanderbilt, Rice, Berkeley, UCLA, Georgetown, UMich, Cornell, Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, Pomona, Bowdoin, Harvey Mudd, Olin College of Engineering (great academically at many things, slightly less desirable than previous tiers and slightly worse undergrad outcomes)
Tier 4 - UVA, NYU, UNC, Georgia Tech, USC, CMU, WUSTL, Emory, Carleton, Wellesley, Wesleyan, Middlebury, Claremont McKenna, Barnard, Davidson, Grinnell…
Duke should be tier 3
Anonymous
12/04/2023 23:01
Subject: College tiers?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Tier 1 - HPSM (tops academically at everything, no special recruitment tactics needed)
Tier 2 - Caltech, UPenn, Duke, Yale, Columbia (great academically at vast majority of things, highly desirable but still employ some special recruitment tactics to compete with Tier 1)
Tier 3 - Brown, Dartmouth, UChicago, Northwestern, Johns Hopkins, Vanderbilt, Rice, Berkeley, UCLA, Georgetown, UMich, Cornell, Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, Pomona, Bowdoin, Harvey Mudd, Olin College of Engineering (great academically at many things, slightly less desirable than previous tiers and slightly worse undergrad outcomes)
Tier 4 - UVA, NYU, UNC, Georgia Tech, USC, CMU, WUSTL, Emory, Carleton, Wellesley, Wesleyan, Middlebury, Claremont McKenna, Barnard, Davidson, Grinnell…
OP, before you waste everyone's time with these kinds of posts, please google. Ivy Scholars is the only operative who uses five tiers, already. https://www.ivyscholars.com/2021/02/12/which-college-is-right-for-you/. throwing out your own tiers is useless to readers here.
+100
Anonymous
12/04/2023 22:50
Subject: College tiers?
And Starfleet Academy, of course (though nobody seems to be able to agree if the service academies belong on the LAC list). So maybe Huxley of Marx Brothers and Starfleet Academy both tier 1, Faber and UC Sunnydale tier 2.
Unless a kid really wants to learn to slay vampires, in which case Sunnydale is tier 1. (Frustrating that the demarcations between tiers aren’t tidier.)
Unless a kid really wants to learn to slay vampires, in which case Sunnydale is tier 1. (Frustrating that the demarcations between tiers aren’t tidier.)
Anonymous
12/04/2023 22:23
Subject: College tiers?
^ no disrespect to the environmental school as I meant
Huxley College, a fictional college in the famous 1932 Marx Brothers film, Horse Feathers.
Huxley College, a fictional college in the famous 1932 Marx Brothers film, Horse Feathers.
Anonymous
12/04/2023 22:19
Subject: College tiers?
Anonymous wrote:Tier 1 - Faber College
Tier 2 - UC Sunnydale
Tier 3 - Harrison University
Tier 4 - Monsters University
I totally disagree. Huxley College is the most elite!
Anonymous
12/04/2023 21:35
Subject: College tiers?
Tier 1 - Faber College
Tier 2 - UC Sunnydale
Tier 3 - Harrison University
Tier 4 - Monsters University
Tier 2 - UC Sunnydale
Tier 3 - Harrison University
Tier 4 - Monsters University
Anonymous
12/04/2023 20:00
Subject: College tiers?
LOLAnonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Tier 1 - Your Mom
Tier 2 - NO1CRR
Tier 3 - Yale
Tier 4 - Stahp
Tier 1 - the school that loved your kid.
The one your kid chose to attend.
Tier 2 - all other schools that loved your kid.
Tier 3- ivy pluses
Tier 3 - ivy minuses
Anonymous
12/04/2023 20:00
Subject: College tiers?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I may be wrong, but I had assumed it was newcomers to the U.S. driving this.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:DCUM obsession with prestige is so exhausting. Everything must be ranked and hierarchical.
Welcome to the U.S.A.
USN&WR
Drives the college ranking narrative.
For bumpkins and newbies, yes.
USN&WR rankings (T10, T20, T25, etc.) are pretty much what DCUMers post about, directly or indirectly.
If you don't realize this you must be a newbie.
Statement stands.
Anonymous
12/04/2023 19:49
Subject: College tiers?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I may be wrong, but I had assumed it was newcomers to the U.S. driving this.Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:DCUM obsession with prestige is so exhausting. Everything must be ranked and hierarchical.
Welcome to the U.S.A.
USN&WR
Drives the college ranking narrative.
For bumpkins and newbies, yes.
Ah, found the sour grapes poster whose kid's school has been downgraded.
DP
Anonymous
12/04/2023 19:47
Subject: College tiers?
Anonymous wrote:DCUM obsession with prestige is so exhausting. Everything must be ranked and hierarchical.
+1
What is the purpose of yet *another* ranking thread? Which, btw, is only based on someone's opinion.