| I don't think many unbiased people would agree that UMichigan is on a par with any of those other schools in Alexandre's Group 2; certainly not from a student selectivity perspective. I get the impression from people I've talked to is that UMichigan OOS attendees are those that get rejected at all those other Group 2 schools. M+V SAT of Rice and WUSTL in his Group 3 are 100+ points higher than UMichigan and think Tufts would be a fair amount more highly regarded than any of those other schools in Group 4. Brandeis, RPI, Lehigh are certainly stronger than all the other schools in the Group 5.
I don't know much about the relative placement of public schools except that Cal/Berkeley, UVA, UMichigan are probably considered the best three and would put them in Group 3. I'm curious how you have any context to differentiate UIllinois, UWashington, UMaryland into groups 3,4,5 when they don't seem materially different from each other to me aside from your pro Big 10, anti east coast bias. |