Chicago vs Brown

@Penn95 : I disagree still

Tier 1:
HYPSM

Tier 2:
Chicago, Columbia, Caltech

Tier 3:
(Penn, Duke)

Tier 4:
(Penn, Duke), Dartmouth, Brown, Northwestern, Cornell, JHU

Note that Penn has lower peer assessment scores than Cornell and JHU (and Duke if I recall correctly), so the distinction between tier 3 and 4 is very small if existent at all. When assessing your own school, you should focus more on what outsiders think; everyone is subject to overconfidence bias.