<p>-Tier 1-
Harvard, MIT, Princeton, Stanford, Yale</p>
<p>-Tier 2-
Brown, Cal Tech, Chicago, Columbia, Dartmouth, Duke, Penn</p>
<p>-Tier 3-
Cornell, Georgetown, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, UCBerkeley</p>
<p>-Tier 4-
Carnegie Mellon, Emory, Michigan, Notre Dame, Rice, UCLA, UVA, Vandy, WUSTL</p>
<p>-Tier 5-
Boston College, Georgia Tech, NYU, Tufts, UNC, USC, Wisconsin, W&M</p>
<p>When you say prestige, I think Ph.D. research quality and quantity. I <em>don’t</em> think about prestige as interpreted by 17 year olds.</p>
<p>TIER 1
Harvard, Berkeley, Stanford</p>
<p>Tier 2
Princeton, MIT, Caltech, Cornell, Yale</p>
<p>TIER 3
Columbia, Penn, Chicago, Michigan, UCLA, UCSD, </p>
<p>TIER 4
Illinois, Wisconsin, Washington, Northwestern, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Texas, UNC-CH, UVA , WashU, NYU, Brown</p>
<p>LACs and small national unis like Dartmouth Emory, Rice are not really about broad based Ph.D. research, so they don’t fit on my list.</p>
<p>^^ note undergraduate.</p>
<p>Live in New Jersey, so East Coast/Atlantic Bias. Brown was omitted for obvious reasons. </p>
<p>All schools are arranged in no particular order within tiers. LACs were excluded; part of this is because, really, prestige is hard to come by with them…</p>
<p>Tier 1: Harvard, Yale, Princeton</p>
<p>Tier 2: MIT, Stanford</p>
<p>Tier 3: Columbia, Georgetown, Caltech, Dartmouth</p>
<p>Tier 4: Duke, University of Chicago, Cornell, Penn (it really is confused with Penn State… often)</p>
<p>Tier 5: Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Cal, UVA, NYU</p>
<p>Tier 6: UCLA, UNC</p>
<p>Tier 7: Vanderbilt, Rice, Michigan</p>
<p>Tier 8: Carnegie Mellon, Emory, Washington University in St. Louis</p>
<p>There is no way georgetown is higher than Cornell.</p>
<p>Is it a better college? Probably not.</p>
<p>Is it more prestigious? Yeah, kind of.</p>
<p>I think it’s safe to say that Berkeley and UCLA are on the same tier</p>
<p>I await Alexandre’s take on this. I have been agreeing with his posts usually.</p>
<p>Alexandre is the man! </p>
<p><a href=“http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/college/national-counselor-rank[/url]”>http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/college/national-counselor-rank</a></p>
<p>**US News High School Counselor Rankings<a href=“let%20me%20just%20say,%20this%20list%20is%20pretty%20good%20except%20Stanford??”>/B</a></p>
<p>Rank #1 -HARVARD, YALE, PRINCETON, MIT</p>
<p>Rank #5 - STANFORD, BROWN, CORNELL, COLUMBIA</p>
<p>Rank #9- CALTECH, UC BERKELEY, GEORGETOWN, NORTHWESTERN, JOHNS HOPKINS, DARTMOUTH, DUKE, UPENN,</p>
<p>Rank #17 - UCHICAGO, CARNEGIE MELLON, VIRGINIA</p>
<p>Rank #20 - NOTRE DAME, WUSTL, RICE, UMICHIGAN</p>
<p>CMU and UVA over Michigan? I don’t think so.</p>
<p>Hope2GetRice’s ranking is the best. Cornell is the “pits of the Ivy League”, wow I love this argument. Who are the 5 best basketball players in the NBA: LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, Dwight Howard, Dwayne Wade, and Chris Paul. Lets argue over who is worse out of these 5. Well statistically Chris Paul is, ergo, he is a horrific basketball player. No he is no, he just paled in comparison, he’s still one of the top 5 ayers in the NBA. Just because Cornell has the highest admit rate in they Ivy League doesn’t mean your little sub par schools are better than it</p>
<p>Yeah, UMich and UCB is ranked among the top in terms of academic peer review (4.7) each. Not really sure… hmm…</p>
<p>Is anyone at Cornell not incredibly self conscious of his or her school’s image?</p>
<p>I mean, really. </p>
<p>No one is claiming that it is a bad school.</p>
<p>Many people could only dream of getting into it.</p>
<p>Just because 98% of people say it isn’t as good as Harvard doesn’t make it a bad school. It’s just not the best in the country.</p>
<p>So please go back to neurotically measuring yourself against other things.</p>
<p>^ lol, I know I hate those people and now I am becoming one myself. But one cannot help it, I never said it isn’t as good as Harvard, I’m just saying that there is this weird logic that because Cornell isn’t as good as Harvard it really isn’t that good at all and is overrated</p>
<p>ier 1:
Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, MIT</p>
<p>Tier 2:
Columbia, Penn, Brown, Dartmouth, DUKE, Caltech,</p>
<p>Tier 2.5:
Chicago, CORNELL, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, WashU</p>
<p>Tier 3:
Rice, Emory, Vanderbilt, UVA, UCB, Michigan, Notre Dame, Georgetown</p>
<p>Tier 4:
CMU, UCLA, UNC, </p>
<p>seems like Tier 2.5/3 is where the controversy starts</p>
<p>Actually Bescraze, the controversy starts after “tier” 1. Which is precisely why I will not participate in this particular thread.</p>
<p>This thread is pointless.</p>
<p>^wow finally someone realized! yay! haha…</p>
<p>Bescraze, I think your ranking is not really about presitige.
Counselor’s ranking seems most plausible.</p>
<p>My Criteria:
<p>TIER 1
Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Princeton, MIT</p>
<p>TIER 2-A
UC Berkeley, Caltech, Columbia, UPenn, Chicago, Duke, Johns Hopkins
TIER 2-B
Cornell, Michigan, Northwestern, Dartmouth </p>
<p>TIER 3
Rice, Brown, UVa, CMU </p>
<p>TIER 4
Georgetown, Emory, Vanderbilt, WUSL, Notre Dame, UCLA, USC, NYU</p>
<p>TIER 5
UNC, Georgia Tech, Tufts, Tulane, W&M, Wisconsin, Brandies, Wake Forest, Case Western, UCSD, Washington & Lee</p>
<p>TIER 6
UC Irvine, Lehigh, Boston College, Colgate, Texas-Austin, UIUC, UCSB, UF, Penn State, Rochester Institute</p>