<p>What is a trier school in Us News and Reports?</p>
<p>Are asking about first/second/third tier schools?</p>
<p>3rd. sorry about that…</p>
<p>Wabash, I’m still not sure I understand what you’re asking but I’ll give it a shot. Here’s how US News defines the tiers: </p>
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<p>In order to focus on the best schools, U.S. News publishes the numbered rank of approximately the top 50 percent of schools in all the categories. The remaining schools are placed in tiers or broad groups, based on their overall score in their category, (the third and fourth tiers) and listed alphabetically.</p>
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<p>This translates into approximately 248 national research universities and 217 liberal arts colleges being in the first and second tiers. If you look at the actual rankings, however, the first and second tiers actually only show “200” slots. This is because there are many instances where more than one school has tied for a rank. </p>
<p>Keep in mind that US news separates out master’s universities (those that don’t grant doctorates) and comprehensive colleges (those that offer a mix of liberal arts and professional programs) and ranks the ten best of them in each regional so there are no national tiers for those schools in the US News and World Reports ranking system.</p>
<p>Carolyn; isn’t the numbers 248 and 217 represent the total #'s of universities and liberal arts colleges in all 4 tiers (eg. there are about 111 universities listed in the top two tiers).</p>
<p>Donemom, you are right. I was also incorrect above, however, in saying that the ranking slots went to 200 - there are actually something like 100 ranking slots in the top two tiers — approximately 50 in the top tier, and 50 in the bottom. Sorry. :)</p>
<p>COuld it be a reference to the New Trier high schools in suburban Chicago? They’re “renowned” (I believe there are three of them: New Trier East and New Trier West, as I recall, plus a third…but my memory is a bit foggy)…w/out knowing the context of the reference, it’s hard to tell…it’s certainly possible “trier” was a typo referring to “tier”…but the OP reminded me of New Trier HS in Wilmette (a suburb of Chgo)…</p>