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well, if you go by tier 1 = ranks 1-10, tier 2= 11-20, tier 3- 21-30 etc...
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<p>Considering the amount of colleges in the United States, increments of 10 is kinda unrealistic for tiers...Maybe it's my connotation of the word tier...
But i don't think rice should be a safety...</p>
<p>U.S. News Rankings does not go by increments of ten, as far as I know. They seem to have the rankings, and then after the top like 100 colleges it's just tier 3.</p>
<p>Yes I was referring to the 75 percentile which is why i used 75%. I should have added the -tile but forgot to</p>
<p>The USnews tiers, of that is what you are referring to, are more than 10 schools per tier. It is described elsewhere on cc. I'll see if I can find it and will post it.</p>
<p>Here ya gao:
College</a> Search: Second Tier Colleges
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/515557-top-tier-2nd-tier-3rd-tier.html%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-search-selection/515557-top-tier-2nd-tier-3rd-tier.html</a>
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/583756-can-you-help-me-define-tiers-please.html%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/583756-can-you-help-me-define-tiers-please.html</a>
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1061157552-post2.html%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1061157552-post2.html</a>
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1061159430-post6.html%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/1061159430-post6.html</a> (these aren't duplicates but rather the last 2 links are to specific posts in that thread)</p>
<p>Remember- the LAC's are in a separate list from the Universities, and the schools only granting terminal Bachelors and Masters are listed separately from the schools offering doctoral degrees.</p>
<p>This is ridiculous.</p>
<p>We don't need to classify Rice into a certain tier to prove it's a good school.</p>
<p>I was kinda joking, since it would be ridiculous if tiers were in increments of 10. There would be more than 400 tiers! I was asserting that OP's friend's perception of tiers were limited to the top 50 colleges and that anything outside of that was not considered worth going to. Sorry for the confusion.</p>