What divides Tier 1 and 2?

dfree124
Sun, 26 Feb 2012 00:16:26 +0000

I want to say that if the second tier is Brown, Penn and Correll, then the vast majority of our students are attending tier 3 or lower schools. Des this seem realistic?



I was just making a point to say that when people are using the word “tier” on this website, they do so completely arbitrarily. Brown, Penn, and Cornell are awesome, in fact I plan on EDing to Penn next year.

@gadad thanks for the info! I didn’t know that there was actually a tier system. Despite its existence I think most posters use the word tier without knowledge of the USNWR “true” tier system.