<p>If you do not attend any school that is not top ten by USNWR, how sorry would you feel for yourself? I experienced it once, but only briefly.</p>
<p>"tier 1" includes a lot more than top 10, honey, and if you go through random biographies on wikipedia you will find that at least half of the famous/successful people in this country went to some random school that is not tier 1 (the other half mostly go to yale or harvard for whatever reason, mostly cuz they're rich to begin with).</p>
<p>Therefore you have failed.</p>
<p>How? I don't understand. I didn't even say where I go. You don't make any sense.</p>
<p>you are applying to princeton, rice and some similars. But you are not there yet. There is no garantee for you at all.</p>
<p>Okay, well, creepy stalker, "tier 1" means top 50-ish universities on USNews, not to mention an almost equal number of LACs, and I'd way rather go to a school ranked #30 that I really like that, say, U of Chicago in the top 10.</p>
<p>so you are saying that people going to schools like University of Washington receives same education as those going to the Ivies?</p>
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<p>HAHAHHA I don't know if it was intended that way, but that just comes off a little creepy-stalkerish :]</p>
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<p>And yes. Essentially, an education is what you make it to be and how you choose to use it. You can be just as successful or even more successful coming from a state school as you are coming from a "top 10."</p>
<p>And uhhh...USNWR is not the all holy Bible of mankind. Plus it changes every year. Wasn't there once a year when Stanford was like...14th? Does that mean for that one year, going to Stanford was failing?</p>
<p>Would you then transfer out only to find that the next year its rank returned to top 10?</p>
<p>I am saying that the term "tier 1" means top 50 USNews. I personally would say that top 30 schools at least all offer the same education (with minor differences between public and private). The only people who really NEED a place like Harvard or MIT are true geniuses, and there aren't any on here because they wouldn't waste their time on this site.</p>
<p>ohh miss, please document your argument. You say it is better going to a state school than a top ten school.</p>
<p>Brown, Johns Hopkins, Cornell, Berkeley grads. All failures. All doomed to living a life of poverty.</p>
<p>um I didn't say that?</p>
<p>Read it again.</p>
<p>when was Cornell, Brown of JHU ever top ten? How many years Chicago SHOULD have become top ten since 2002?</p>
<p>Wow this is the fastest thread ever!</p>
<p>no, the thread I had on transfer yesterday was even faster. It received up to 90 responses in only three hours. but it was deleted by some freak.</p>
<p>wow i just looked at the times, very fast indeed haha</p>
<p>Probably deservedly so and by a moderator, not a freak. This one will probably be gone in a few minutes.</p>
<p>What was that thread about?</p>
<p>Oh please don't tell me...you're currently going to a school ranked #9 or #10 and you're afraid it's going to drop in rank so you're transferring to a school that will for sure remain in the top 10...</p>
<p>As I see in an other thread, OMZ, you are correct. UChicago->Columbia.</p>
<p>partially, yes. Chicago people are really idiots, they do not support the switch to common application. Besides, the admission rate at Chicago last year was ridiculously high (in a negative sense). So whether Chicago survives this blow is yet a question needs to be further examined.</p>