<p>Detective RJK, on the case!</p>
<p>Maybe he is my long lost twin…</p>
<p>"Detective RJK, on the case!</p>
<p>Maybe he is my long lost twin…"</p>
<p>I forgot to include misjump24. Triplets? Hmmmmmmm</p>
<p>Tier 1 - MIT, Stanford, Caltech, Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Columbia</p>
<p>Tier 2 - Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth , University of Chicago, Amherst, Georgetown,Berkeley </p>
<p>Tier 3 - UCLA, UVA, JHU, Duke, NYU, WUSTL, Northwestern, Carnegie Mellon </p>
<p>Then schools like Vanderbilt, William and Mary, Swarthmore, Haverford</p>
<p>This thread started in 2008. At that time, USNWR still applied the concept of “tiers” to subdivide the colleges it ranked. Look way back to post #15 for an explanation of how it worked then. Today, US News uses the term “Second Tier” to refer to all the schools it does not rank. Ranked schools (scores and scores of colleges) are all in Tier 1.
([Frequently</a> Asked Questions: Best Colleges Rankings - US News and World Report](<a href=“http://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/2012/09/11/frequently-asked-questions-best-colleges-rankings#12]Frequently”>http://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/2012/09/11/frequently-asked-questions-best-colleges-rankings#12))</p>
<p>US News never used the “tier” concept to make distinctions between the 5 highest-ranked schools, the next 3 highest-ranked schools, etc.</p>
<p>According to CC:</p>
<p>Tier 1: Wash U, U Chicago, Tufts
Tier 2: HPYSC, NYU
Tier 3: UCs, Michigan, Brown, UVA, Penn
Tier 4: Vanderbilt, Dartmouth, Georgetown
Tier 5: Cornell
Anywhere else: Might as well go to a community college or join the workforce.</p>
<p>1st Tier: HYPSM, maybe Caltech
2nd Tier: Columbia, UChicago, Penn, Brown, Dartmouth, Duke, Cornell
3rd Tier: Berkeley, Northwestern, WUSTL, UMich, UVA, Tufts, UCLA, Emory, Georgetown</p>
<p>This is just national universities, not including liberal arts schools.</p>
<p>loooollllll @ alto</p>
<p>Community college it is</p>
<p>I love how Cornell is always bashed as the gutter ivy.</p>
<p>CC rankings…</p>
<p>Tier 1 – Duke, Duke and Duke with WUSTL receiving votes</p>
<p>Tier 2 – HYPSM, Cal Tech (even though has fewer students than Deep Springs)</p>
<p>Tier 3 – NYU, Duke (in off years), Columbia, Chicago, Penn, Hopkins</p>
<p>Tier 4 – Dartmouth, Brown, Cornell, Northwestern, Cal, Michigan, WUSTL, Rice, Vandy, UCLA, Georgetown, CMU</p>
<p>Tier 5 – Emory, Notre Dame, UVA, UNC, Tufts, Rochester, Wake, Brandeis</p>
<p>final child must be a duke student/alum</p>
<p>He/she is being sarcastic. He/she doesn’t like the fact that Duke students (heck even prospective students) are deeply passionate about their alma mater. It’s probably all in good humor though.</p>
<p>Schools with the most adamant (sometimes shameless) defenders of their alma matter on CC:</p>
<p>Duke
Michigan
Berkeley
Vanderbilt
Tufts</p>
<p>(no offense all in good fun)</p>
<p>:D</p>
<p>^lol +10.</p>
<p>Surprised that Notre Dame alums let Duke just have the run of the place…</p>
<p>What about UPenn? Jerry Sandusky has left a scar on that place for good.</p>
<p>^^^^Yep, even more of a scar than at Penn State.</p>
<p>^ Hey! Don’t be hatin’ on Penn football–Ivy League champs for 3 of the last 4 years! :p</p>
<p>Wait, Penn is an Ivy League? I thought they were just a football school known for Joe Paterno’s Nittany Lions.</p>
<p>^ In fact, Penn’s the only Ivy League School in the Big 10. :rolleyes:</p>