What divides Tier 1 and 2?

dfree124
Sat, 25 Feb 2012 22:04:23 +0000

The “tier system” is completely arbitrary. There is no accepted tier system, although everyone can agree that HYP are Tier 1 schools.

Sometimes people will call HYPSM the only tier 1 schools, and put schools like Penn, Brown, Cornell, etc. in Tier 2. Other times people will call roughly the top 25 schools Tier 1 schools, and everything following somewhat closely behind Tier 2. I’m just trying to make the point that there’s no true tier for any school.