The tier question comes up so often that I can't help wondering - Once a person finds a top 15 prep to get them into a top 10 university is there then a list of top five professions to be practiced at the top five firms? Do you and your spouse (culled from a list of top 15 available mates) then buy a house in a top 15 zip code and, while summering at one of the top 15 vacation spots, procreate so you can continue the process with the next generation?
In this increasingly flat world, do we only include the top 15 schools in the States or do we need to factor in Eton, Le Rosey, etc.
As for the Andover question - based on their 2007 matriculation list (
http://www.andover.edu/cco/matrics/default.asp), it looks like a few poor slobs ended up at places like Babson and Hollins, even, egads! state schools. By my rough calculation, about 1/3 of the class ended up at the Ivies/Stanford/MIT/Chicago/Williams/Amherst and 2/3 went elsewhere. Of course, I'd argue that that "elsewhere" includes some really great schools that might be perfect for a specific student -- like Babson and Hollins.
