TARGET COLLEGE 2025 RANKING

Tier 1 - Harvard, Wharton, Yale, Princeton, Stanford

Tier 2 - Columbia, UPenn, UChicago, Cornell Dyson

Tier 3 - Duke, Northwestern, Dartmouth, Brown

Tier 4 - NYU Stern, Williams, Georgetown, Michigan, Notre Dame

Tier 5 - UVA, WashU, Amherst, UCB, Vanderbilt

Tier 6 - UNC, Emory, USC, UT, IU Kelley

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agreed emory up 1 not washu and vandy down tho. Washu tbh could be argued to go up 1 in terms of per-capita.

 

emory up 1, cornell down 1 and other then that its good. Anyone saying washu down 1 is talking shit. Washu belongs right there

 

No offense, but Cornell is a little too high. It should be grouped with Duke/Northwestern/Dartmouth/Brown at best. I think Amherst and Williams should be in the same tier. Maybe both in tier 4 or in between tier 3 and tier 4. Emory should be tier 5. Placements look similar to Berkeley, WashU, and Vanderbilt. The rest looks reasonable to me.

 

5 years youve been dickriding emory. washu and emory are the same and tbh washu might be better. they are both tier 5

 

Move Wharton Harvard up a Tier there is a small but considerable difference.

 

Washu literally belongs right there. They’re business school has 150 people, per capita they’re better then all of tier 5 and arguably 4.

 

Yeah, I agree. I don’t understand why people argue between Emory, Vanderbilt, and WashU. Placements seems identical/alike to me. Maybe a tier or two below schools like Georgetown/ND/Stern, but they are still good schools to recruit from.

 

It doesn't, of we went by per capita only, Georgetown would be first. When in fact both schools are hardo. What's funny is College-transitions says Emory is 18 and WashU is 28 for percapita placement, clearly a step below but you're trying to convince everyone otherwise. 

 

Duke and Dartmouth up, Cornell down (also doesn’t matter if you aren’t in Dyson, Cornell overall is a target), and Michigan and Georgetown up. Otherwise, solid list overall.

 

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