<p>I know that might sound like a stupid question but I really don't know.</p>
<p>Can you give me examples;</p>
<p>James Madison
University of Virginia
University of Maryland
College of Charleston
University of Alabama
University of Arizona</p>
<p>James Madison - 4th Tier
UVA - 2nd Tier
Maryland - 3rd Tier
CofC - 3rd Tier
`Bama - 4th Tier
Arizona - 4th Tier</p>
<p>thanks, Im surprised JMU is really that low</p>
<p>Toss a few dice. Its only slightly less accurate than most of the other methods.</p>
<p>haha is there a website or something with tiers</p>
<p>and if UVA is tier 2, what is tier 1, ivys?</p>
<p>ignore Ron Paul.
He would put UVA as tier 2 but have Notre Dame (?) as Tier 1.</p>
<p>UVA is tier 1.
Just go by what the USNWR puts as Tier 1, 2, etc.</p>
<p>No, tier 1 is HYPMS.</p>
<p>UVA and Notre Dame would both be tier two. UVA is an amazing school. (As is Notre Dame but that is irrelevant)</p>
<p>I mean on USNWR is gives</p>
<p>Charleston- 1
JMU- 1
U of A- 1</p>
<p>Well yea. By that context they are all good schools (whic they are), but if you wanted to distinguish between the schools, I would tier it like this:</p>
<p>1: HYPMS
2:Other Ivies, Duke, Top 5 publics, Notre Dame, Rice, etc
3:Wisconsin, Penn State, UCSD, BC, etc
4:Bama, Iowa, Kansas, Northeastern, etc
5:Most non-flagship state schools, etc</p>
<p>I’m sorry I just don’t see how Bama is as good as northeastern.</p>
<p>I feel like the whole tier system is messed up. Clemson and Charleston aren’t flagship, and def. are better than USCC</p>
<p>Ron Paul is on Crack</p>
<p>All schools listed are tier 1 and 2 and are very good schools</p>
<p>Tier 1 is actually all of the following plus some: Ivys, Stanford, Caltech, MIT, UVA, Georgetown, Notre Dame, Rice, Emory, Northwestern, BC, NYU, Tufts</p>
<p>UCB, UCLA & Michigan too^^</p>
<p>Tier 1 is generally all top 50 schools in USNWR</p>
<p>don’t worry too much about a schools tier, don’t let US News tell you what school is “tier 1” and what school isn’t :)</p>
<p>How many tiers are there by the way?</p>
<p>some of the information given above is inaccurate in regards to US News</p>
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<li><p>US News does not tell you which schools are Tier 1 or Tier 2. Tiers 1 and 2 are combined in one list. UVA, Maryland, Alabama and Arizona are in the top 2 “tiers” for national universities</p></li>
<li><p>There are several types of schools that US News ranks: national universities, liberal arts colleges, masters colleges, and baccalaureate colleges. James Madison and College Of Charleston fall within the Masters category and are top 10 in the South for that category. (dunno where that Ron Paul got the idea that JMU is a 4th tier school…LOL)</p></li>
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<p>it all seems kinda stupid to me</p>
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<p>To make it all seem less stupid, the first thing you gotta do is get clear about what somebody means by a “tier”. If a USNWR “tier” holds 130 schools, that has a different meaning than somebody else’s tier that holds 5.</p>
<p>According to the official US News Tier Categories, all of those are Tier 1. But you shouldn’t take any rankings too seriously.</p>