School Tier List for PE / HF

S tier: HYPSM + Wharton

A tier: Columbia, Penn, Dartmouth, Duke, Caltech, Brown, Cornell, Chicago

B tier: Michigan, Georgetown, Notre Dame, NYU Stern, UVA, Northwestern

C tier: JHU, Vanderbilt and other top 25s 

D tier: Recognizable state schools (UT, IU, Binghamton, OSU, PSU etc.)

F tier: Complete no-name schools

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