Anonymous wrote:The definitive guide:

1. Harvard

2. Stanford, MIT, Yale, Princeton

3. Columbia, Wharton, CalTech, CMU SCS

4. Amherst/Williams, Chicago, Duke, Brown, Dartmouth, Cornell, JHU, NU, Penn non-Wharton

5. UVA, Cal, UCLA, UMich, Rice, Vanderbilt, Wash U, Georgetown, Notre Dame, Emory, CMU non-SCS, USC, Georgia Tech, NYU Stern

No! The other one is better. Im a different poster by the way.

Anonymous wrote:Boston college has way more lay prestige than Wesleyan. So does Notre Dame. Come on now...

The fact that you'd even use a term like "lay prestige" betrays your bias towards the two Catholic schools. In most circles, a Wesleyan degree carries far more clout than one from BC, even if it hasn't kept up with Amherst and Williams in recent years.

Anonymous wrote:The definitive guide:

1. Harvard

2. Stanford, MIT, Yale, Princeton

3. Columbia, Wharton, CalTech, CMU SCS

4. Amherst/Williams, Chicago, Duke, Brown, Dartmouth, Cornell, JHU, NU, Penn non-Wharton

5. UVA, Cal, UCLA, UMich, Rice, Vanderbilt, Wash U, Georgetown, Notre Dame, Emory, CMU non-SCS, USC, Georgia Tech, NYU Stern

Nice try, CMU booster

Boston college has way more lay prestige than Wesleyan. So does Notre Dame. Come on now...

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The definitive guide:

1. Harvard

2. Stanford, MIT, Yale, Princeton

3. Columbia, Wharton, CalTech, CMU SCS

4. Amherst/Williams, Chicago, Duke, Brown, Dartmouth, Cornell, JHU, NU, Penn non-Wharton

5. UVA, Cal, UCLA, UMich, Rice, Vanderbilt, Wash U, Georgetown, Notre Dame, Emory, CMU non-SCS, USC, Georgia Tech, NYU Stern

Vastly Flawed. Lot of people think Princeton and Yale are better than Harvard. CMU only has computer science. Don't know what SCS is. There is no Pomona or Swathmore which are much superior to anything in your flawed Tier 5. Again you are biased against SLACs. You can distinguish Wharton vs Non-Wharton otherwise you need to put VT engineering up there. Idiotic.

Live by the tier, die by the tier. If you don't stop this, your Yale or Princeton is going to get dropped down to Columbia territory.

Anonymous wrote:The definitive guide:

1. Harvard

2. Stanford, MIT, Yale, Princeton

3. Columbia, Wharton, CalTech, CMU SCS

4. Amherst/Williams, Chicago, Duke, Brown, Dartmouth, Cornell, JHU, NU, Penn non-Wharton

5. UVA, Cal, UCLA, UMich, Rice, Vanderbilt, Wash U, Georgetown, Notre Dame, Emory, CMU non-SCS, USC, Georgia Tech, NYU Stern

So sad.

Anonymous wrote:The definitive guide:

1. Harvard

2. Stanford, MIT, Yale, Princeton

3. Columbia, Wharton, CalTech, CMU SCS

4. Amherst/Williams, Chicago, Duke, Brown, Dartmouth, Cornell, JHU, NU, Penn non-Wharton

5. UVA, Cal, UCLA, UMich, Rice, Vanderbilt, Wash U, Georgetown, Notre Dame, Emory, CMU non-SCS, USC, Georgia Tech, NYU Stern

Vastly Flawed. Lot of people think Princeton and Yale are better than Harvard. CMU only has computer science. Don't know what SCS is. There is no Pomona or Swathmore which are much superior to anything in your flawed Tier 5. Again you are biased against SLACs. You can distinguish Wharton vs Non-Wharton otherwise you need to put VT engineering up there. Idiotic.

The definitive guide:

1. Harvard

2. Stanford, MIT, Yale, Princeton

3. Columbia, Wharton, CalTech, CMU SCS

4. Amherst/Williams, Chicago, Duke, Brown, Dartmouth, Cornell, JHU, NU, Penn non-Wharton

5. UVA, Cal, UCLA, UMich, Rice, Vanderbilt, Wash U, Georgetown, Notre Dame, Emory, CMU non-SCS, USC, Georgia Tech, NYU Stern

Anybody who is obsessed with rankings is objectively an imbecile.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't want to live in a universe where someone really think Boston College has more to offer than Wesleyan.

The fact you have to defend Wesleyan indicates it should not belong. This is a people's list of what perception is.

Really? Like the People's Choice Awards?

It's more like a person's list, aided by the fact that 1-2 other equally status-conscious dweebs decided to play along - not that the rest of us can readily distinguish one of you from the other two. You might as well have an all-day shouting match with a mirror.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't want to live in a universe where someone really think Boston College has more to offer than Wesleyan.

The fact you have to defend Wesleyan indicates it should not belong. This is a people's list of what perception is.

The closest thing to a consensus is going to be HYPSM. Beyond that is is progressively less clear.

I think this tier approach is a hell a lot of more accurate than distinguishing the 19th school from the 21st like US News does. It is also better because it combines the SLACs and doesn't segregate them like US News. Much prefer Forbes, WSJ approach of combining them.

1A) Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Yale, Princeton
1B) Columbia, Penn, Duke, Chicago, Caltech

2A) Northwestern, Brown, Dartmouth, Williams, Amherst, *John's Hopkins
2B) Rice, Cornell, Pomona, Vanderbilt, Georgetown, Cal, Notre Dame, Emory, Swarthmore, UCLA, Wellesley, WashU St.Louis, Carnegie Mellon

3A) Michigan, NYU, USC, UVA, Tufts, Middlebury, Barnard, GaTech, Bowdoin, Vassar
3B)UNC, Boston College, W&M, Wake, W&L, Davidson, Haverford

Moved Vassar up. Any other changes? Are folks good. I almost feel like we are east coast biasing Pomona. Thinking Pomona and Swarthmore need to be somewhere between 2A and 2B. I feel like they are above everybody in that tier except maybe Cornell and Rice. But I will leave it for now.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't want to live in a universe where someone really think Boston College has more to offer than Wesleyan.

The fact you have to defend Wesleyan indicates it should not belong. This is a people's list of what perception is.

The closest thing to a consensus is going to be HYPSM. Beyond that is is progressively less clear.

Anonymous wrote:I don't want to live in a universe where someone really think Boston College has more to offer than Wesleyan.

The fact you have to defend Wesleyan indicates it should not belong. This is a people's list of what perception is.

I don't want to live in a universe where someone really think Boston College has more to offer than Wesleyan.