Non Ivy League/HYPSM Tier List for IB

To my rising seniors, if you don't get into an Ivy League/Stanford/MIT, it's not the end of the road. Here is a tier list for the non Ivy League schools to help you out with your decision as you go through this upcoming cycle. Remember, cost is always important, but going to a top-tier target school can provide a solid advantage than coming from a non-target school, and sometimes going to the target is the better choice as long as it's not too much of a cost burden. Anyways, best of luck this upcoming cycle!

S+: UChicago, Duke

S: Georgetown, Northwestern, NYU Stern

A+: UMich Ross, UVA

A: Notre Dame, Berkeley

B: Emory, USC, Vanderbilt

C: IU Kelley, UNC Chapel Hill, BC, Rice, UCLA, Hopkins, CMU

D: Penn State, Baruch, Rutgers

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FYI, OP is an incoming freshman at Georgetown who has spent months on this site, reddit, and even in tiktok comments trying to tell everyone that Georgetown is a good school. Remember all of the Georgetown vs X school posts on this site? Well that was OP. Please ignore OP and their posts because OP clearly has a problem.

 

It's also just such a dumb list..."the best non-Ivy schools, excluding the actual best ones". Obviously Duke and Chicago are great schools - as good as mid-tier ones - but there's no point in this specific list of 10 schools

If it was a thread of "best schools that are easier to get into" I'd feel differently

 

Thanks for sharing your opinion. I just wanted to provide a wide variety of schools in the Tier List. Do you think the tiers are accurate, particulary, S-B? Thanks!

 

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