<p><em>definite</em></p>
<p>It was never <em>definite</em>. It was US New’s arbitrary cutoff based on their opinion/rankings. Take it with a SERIOUS grain of salt. Look at other college rankings and you will get a different rank order list.</p>
<p>Yes I know, I have looked at all of the college rankings that college confidential has posted.</p>
<p>Anything below HYPSM as tier 2? Oh, gag. Someone got their college info from completely mythical sources. Who slices things that thin? Total nonsense.</p>
<p>Thank you! Finally some one who is realistic and isn’t just in love with the Ives!</p>
<p>You missed her point.</p>
<p>*** And also missed the funny, tongue-in-cheek comments from several other posters who jokingly claimed that all but Temple, Iowa State and Duke were Tier 2. They were funny.</p>
<p>No I really didn’t… She’s just saying that there are more tier 1 schools besides the Ives and Stanford. There’s really nothing to miss.</p>
<p>Really- the Tier stuff is nonsense. Let it go. And read the addendum to my earlier post. People are having fun with this.</p>
<p>I know that the tier stuff is nonsense. If you read my earlier post I believe I called it an antiquated method of dividing colleges that is no longer in use… Still there really is no other way to divide schools into groups.</p>
<p>Why do you need to put them in “groups”? The ranking system sells magazines- not much else.</p>
<p>The “groups” that one should consider are: reach, match and likely/safety. The others dont matter.</p>
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<p>Sure there is. Human ingenuity hardly has a limit when it comes to sorting things into many little categories.</p>
<p>For example, US News has another way of grouping.
It maintains separate lists for “National universities”, “National Liberal Arts Colleges”, “Regional Universities (North)”, “Regional Universities (South)”, etc. So now we can torment each other with the problem of how to compare the #5 Regional University (West) with the #35 National Liberal Arts College, or the #73 Regional College (South) with any of the Tier 2 (rank not published) National Universities.</p>
<p>Good point. And what about by size, location, etc.</p>