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Bro def goes to Berkeley
Dude didn’t mention usc and UCLA. Definitely goes to Berkeley.
Berkeley a whole tier above Mich/Stern? Lol congrats liberal
Where’s UChicago? Also there’s no way Northwestern is that low
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ur a literal high schooler thats an incoming freshman. why do people like you feel the need to post?
Hahahaha yep bro that's why Duke is literally 4th overall in the top tier PE representation thread recently posted on here. At least you're a freshman so I'll give you a pass.
hes an incoming freshman, literally hasn't even started college yet. ridiculous, this forum really has been going downhill for awhile
There is no way Duke is on HYPSM / Mid tier ivy level. It's more like on Brown/Chicago/Cornell level
Bro tried to sneak UVA in there, congrats on the BofA offer
Congrats on FTP hahaha. What middle market deals are you working on bro?
UVA and Berkeley will never be above JHU, Vanderbilt, or Northwestern
Move ucb down to tier 4
add uchicago to tier 2
I would put
S tier: HYPSM + Wharton
A+- Columbia, Penn, Duke, Dartmouth, UChicago
A tier: Georgetown, Brown, Cornell, NYU Stern
B+ tier: Michigan, Berkeley, Williams, Amherst, Notre Dame, UVA
B tier- Northwestern(debatable between B+/B), Vanderbilt, Emory, Johns Hopkins, WashU, Middlebury, Rice
C+ Tier- UT Austin(debatable between B/C+), UNC(debatable between B/C+), Boston College, Washington and Lee, Hamilton, CMU
C Tier- Wake Forest, IU Kelley, Villanova, William and Mary, Tufts, SMU
No way brown and Cornell are on the same level as NYU stern
Majority of the schools in your B tier are better than the ones in B+
For example?
In any ranking ever, Berkeley and Michigan rank higher than NYU. Especially for business.
Congrats on Berkeley
AndyLouis can we ban literally every single one of these posts from now on
Most recently, I'd say:
1: Wharton, Harvard, Yale, Princeton
2: Stanford, MIT, Penn (non-Wharton), Columbia, Dartmouth, Duke, Brown, NYU Stern
3: Cornell, Georgetown, Williams, Amherst, NYU (Non-stern), Michigan (Ross)
4: Vanderbilt, Michigan (non-Ross), Northwestern, WashU, Berkeley, Emory, Hopkins, UVA, UNC
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