To those asking. There’s no criteria and this had nothing to do with appropriateness for any student.
This is from my original post,
“Outside of the consistently top schools. What traditionally strong institutions outside of this top group that you feel both here on CC and in your worldview seem to be more competitive and attractive than ever. And why?“
It was simply to see what schools that don’t always make it on the innumerable threads on the same schools. In your town and child’s school. Just to add some breadth to the dialogue is all.