That seems like a lazy way of creating tiers. What’s the point of segmenting colleges and universities into tiers if what you really mean is “1) Private universities, 2) private LACs and 3) public universities”? It would have made more sense to divide them by test scores or admissions rates. Still lazy, but at least they wouldn’t be lumping Christendom College (96% acceptance rate) with places like Amherst and Pomona and ahead of public universities with acceptance rates in the teens.