Target School Rankings 2025-2026

Tier 1: Harvard, Wharton

Tier 2: Princeton, Yale, Stanford, MIT, Columbia, Penn

Tier 3: UChicago, Duke, Dartmouth, Brown, Northwestern, Cornell

Tier 4: Georgetown, NYU Stern, Michigan Ross, UVA, Notre Dame, Williams, Amherst

Tier 5: UT, UC Berkeley, Emory, WashU, Vanderbilt, USC

Tier 6: IU Kelley, UNC, UCLA, Johns Hopkins, BC

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Either move up to UChicago and Dartmouth, or move down UPenn and Columbia. You also need separate entries for UPenn Wharton and UPenn CAS.

 

Atlcalling

Did their numbers drop? 

UCLA is ranked higher than Berkeley now

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