Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:HYPSM, Caltech, Columbia, Penn, Chicago, Northwestern, Duke, Dartmouth, Brown, Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Amherst, Williams

+1

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The only elite schools are Harvard, Yale and Princeton.

Below that is a mishmash of vocational tech schools for strivers (MIT, CalTech) and respectable Ivies/SLACs for kids who went to NMH or Taft (Dartmouth, Amherst, Williams, etc.).

Beyond that, you’re better off at a public Ivy like UVA, Penn, or Minnesota.

Columbia and NYU are OK if you’re international and extremely wealthy, or a mobster’s daughter from northern Jersey.

MINNESOTA?!??? Wtf? Literally what r u smoking

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Anonymous wrote:Here is a ranking on a thread from two years ago that seemed to get consensus. I would hav northwestern lower but otherwise looks good.

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

2A) Northwestern, Brown, Dartmouth, Williams, Amherst
2B) Rice, Cornell, Pomona, Vanderbilt, Georgetown, Cal, Notre Dame, Emory, Swarthmore, UCLA, Wellesley

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

Tier 2A is very debatable is there are a lot of great schools that could go there.

The tiers of a clown

Anonymous wrote:The only elite schools are Harvard, Yale and Princeton.

Below that is a mishmash of vocational tech schools for strivers (MIT, CalTech) and respectable Ivies/SLACs for kids who went to NMH or Taft (Dartmouth, Amherst, Williams, etc.).

Beyond that, you’re better off at a public Ivy like UVA, Penn, or Minnesota.

Columbia and NYU are OK if you’re international and extremely wealthy, or a mobster’s daughter from northern Jersey.

Anonymous wrote:Here is a ranking on a thread from two years ago that seemed to get consensus. I would hav northwestern lower but otherwise looks good.

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

2A) Northwestern, Brown, Dartmouth, Williams, Amherst
2B) Rice, Cornell, Pomona, Vanderbilt, Georgetown, Cal, Notre Dame, Emory, Swarthmore, UCLA, Wellesley

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

Tier 2A is very debatable is there are a lot of great schools that could go there.

Anonymous wrote:The only elite schools are Harvard, Yale and Princeton.

Below that is a mishmash of vocational tech schools for strivers (MIT, CalTech) and respectable Ivies/SLACs for kids who went to NMH or Taft (Dartmouth, Amherst, Williams, etc.).

Beyond that, you’re better off at a public Ivy like UVA, Penn, or Minnesota.

Columbia and NYU are OK if you’re international and extremely wealthy, or a mobster’s daughter from northern Jersey.

Anonymous wrote:HYPSM, Caltech, Columbia, Penn, Chicago, Northwestern, Duke, Dartmouth, Brown, Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Amherst, Williams

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For the umpteenth time, the only unambiguously elite colleges in this country are:

HYPSM, UChicago, MIT, Stanford, Duke, Northwestern, Cornell, Brown, Dartmouth, Johns Hopkins, Berkeley, Caltech, Williams, and Amherst.

Nope. If we’re going to be snobby and elite, let’s be snobby and elite. HYPSM is it, thus the acronym. All the rest are more like those of the Top 25 you don’t want to admit to the club. Sounds like you’re trying to get yourself into a club where you don’t belong.

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Anonymous wrote:With more qualified applicants than ever, HPY can’t admit everyone, so there is a trickle down of great students to other Top 25 schools and beyond. SATs at the Top 20 schools are essentially undifferentiated. Thus, one can’t say that kids at any of the Top 20 schools aren’t elite. But, that leaves HPY kids still wanting to differentiate themselves. That’s when they lay down their ace: Ivy League.

Exactly, there's been plenty of students rejected from Vandy but into Yale. It's all over tik tok. DCU will always be delusional.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For the umpteenth time, the only unambiguously elite colleges in this country are:

HYPSM, UChicago, MIT, Stanford, Duke, Northwestern, Cornell, Brown, Dartmouth, Johns Hopkins, Berkeley, Caltech, Williams, and Amherst.

Which did you go to?

Princeton.

So, you went to Princeton, and you’re spending your time on college ranking p*ssing matches? You’re either a pathetic example of an alum or you’re lying. For Princeton’s sake, I hope it’s the latter.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For the umpteenth time, the only unambiguously elite colleges in this country are:

HYPSM, UChicago, MIT, Stanford, Duke, Northwestern, Cornell, Brown, Dartmouth, Johns Hopkins, Berkeley, Caltech, Williams, and Amherst.

Which did you go to?

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Anonymous wrote:For the umpteenth time, the only unambiguously elite colleges in this country are:

HYPSM, UChicago, MIT, Stanford, Duke, Northwestern, Cornell, Brown, Dartmouth, Johns Hopkins, Berkeley, Caltech, Williams, and Amherst.

Pomona, Rice, Vanderbilt, Carnegie Mellon and Columbia aren’t chopped liver either.

Anonymous wrote:There is an athletic conference comprised of the elite colleges: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Penn, Cornell, Brown, Dartmouth.

Sometimes we include Stanford as our hip west coaster and MIT as our hyper geek for diversity purposes.

There's no objective argument to include any others into this illustrious group.