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Tier 1A: Harvard, MIT, Stanford

These 3 undoubtedly attract the most ambitious and high caliber students, and have droves of graduates lead in politics, technology, medicine, etc. The main difference comes with the types of achievers that are in the student body: Harvard is flooded with children of influential parents (like the children of presidents/prime ministers) and many wealthy legacies to go along with their usual high achievers, MIT runs mostly on meritocracy and will have on average the academically strongest student body (it's very difficult to "slip into" MIT), and Stanford is somewhere in the middle. These 3 schools are also known to produce the highest proportion of influential entrepreneurs out of undergrad by a long shot. Graduates (and dropouts) of Harvard have helped created companies like Microsoft, Facebook, and Asana, for MIT they include Stripe, Cruise, and Dropbox, and for Stanford they include Snapchat, Robinhood, and Brex. Overall, not much else to say as most people already know the high caliber of these schools.

Tier 1B: Princeton, Yale

Essentially attracts similar students to Tier 1A, but they enroll and perform at that high level at a slightly lower frequency. Princeton is extremely well rounded, and where Yale lags in STEM it makes up for in excellence in the humanities and arts. Princeton's most notorious undergrad alumnus is Jeff Bezos, while outside of the Bush family Yale's is likely Stephen Schwarzman (founder of The Blackstone Group).

Tier 2A: Columbia (1B for merit scholarships like Egleston or Kluge), Caltech

Columbia has been knocking on the door of being a Tier 1 undergrad school for a while, but it still doesn't produce top scholars and leaders in the same frequency as the Tier 1 schools. Outside of the Tier 1 schools, Columbia gets some of the best students, especially internationally given the pull of New York. Caltech is essentially a West-coast MIT, with a greater focus on undergraduate research and grad school preparation due to its extremely small student body and close student-faculty interactions. Unfortunately, for undergrad it is slightly in the shadow of MIT and loses many students to its Cambridge-based counterpart.

Tier 2B: UPenn (1A for dual-degree programs like M&T or Huntsman, 1B for Wharton), UChicago, Duke (1A for full-ride merit scholarships like the AB Duke or Robertson)

These 3 have a similar dynamic to the 3 schools in Tier 1A, with UPenn being most like Harvard, UChicago being most like MIT, and Duke being most like Stanford in terms of the personalities they attract. UPenn attracts the more pre-professional students, UChicago the more intellectual students, and Duke somewhere in the middle. UPenn absolutely crushes it in business/finance, with their graduates flooding Wall Street and having founded a multitude of prominent investment firms such as Point72 Asset Management and Apollo Global Management. UChicago is notable for producing many innovative and outside-of-the-box thinkers such as Carl Sagan and Paul Samuelson, but truthfully their output of academic stalwarts has declined during the 21st century as they are trying to become more similar to their Ivy League counterparts, losing a large part of their academic uniqueness in the process. Duke produces a strong mix of academics and professionals, having produced the most Rhodes scholars outside of HYPSM in the 21st Century while also being up and coming for entrepreneurship, with recent graduates building multibillion dollar companies such as Coinbase, Plaid, and Airtable. Overall, these 3 schools are great second options behind Harvard, MIT, and Stanford!

Tier 3A: Dartmouth, Northwestern (1A for 7 year HPME), Brown (1A for 8 year PLME), Williams, Olin College of Engineering

Dartmouth, Brown, and Northwestern are very close to being in Tier 2B, but there is a gap between them and 2B that is similar to the gap between 1A and 1B: they enroll similar students, but 2B just does it with slightly more consistency and with slightly better outcomes. However, Dartmouth sticks out for its intense focus on undergraduate education, Brown sticks out for its flexible curriculum and learning options, and Northwestern sticks out for its extremely strong arts and journalism. Williams is arguably the best liberal arts school, with a fiercely loyal alumni network and a track record of producing a high frequency of political influencers, financiers, and academic leaders. Olin flies under the radar a lot due to its extremely small student body (less than 100 students in each year), but it offers one of the most unique schooling experiences and produces some of the highest caliber graduates. Olin molds phenomenal hands-on engineers as every student gets a dedicated workspace to build with, and classes are centered around practical knowledge over theory.

Tier 3B: Cornell, Johns Hopkins (2B for BME, 2A for half-tuition Hodson Trust scholarship), Vanderbilt (1B for full-tuition merit scholarships like the CV or Chancellor's), Rice (1A for 8 year Rice/Baylor Medical Scholars Program, 2A for half-tuition Trustee Distinguished scholarship), Amherst, Pomona, Swarthmore, Bowdoin

Cornell is an engineering powerhouse and offers the unique hospitality and agriculture schools, and Johns Hopkins is a pre-med powerhouse - in particular those strengths make these schools stick out. Vanderbilt is well-rounded, but unfortunately nothing sticks out in terms of producing leaders. Rice is one of the more underrated schools and can certainly see it's way into 3A in the upcoming years, as it produces many political and technological leaders such as former US Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez and John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins. What unifies these 4 schools together is that unfortunately they miss out on a lot of top talent who overwhelmingly enroll at Tier 2 schools like Columbia, UPenn, and Duke when provided the option. Amherst, Pomona, Swarthmore, and Bowdoin are some of the premier liberal arts colleges in America, but ultimately lag behind Williams in producing standouts in fields such as mathematics and political science.

Tier 4A: Georgetown, WashU (2A for full-tuition scholarships like the Danforth or Ervin), UC Berkeley (3B for Haas, 3A for in-state tuition, 2B for EECS, 2A for MET program), Notre Dame (2B for half-tuition Hesburgh-Yusko Scholars Program), Harvey Mudd College, Claremont McKenna College

Not writing any explanation for Tier 4 as it is getting too nit-picky!

Tier 4B: Tufts, Wellesley College, UCLA (3B for in-state tuition), Carnegie Mellon (2B for School of Computer Science), UMich (4A for Ross, 3B for in-state tuition, 3A for CS, 2A for full-ride Stamps scholarship), USC (2A for full-tuition Trustee scholarship), Emory (2A for full-ride Woodruff scholarship), Georgia Tech (4A for in-state tuition, 3A for CS, 2A for full-ride Stamps scholarship), NYU (4A for Stern)

After this, many great schools like UVA, Middlebury, UNC Chapel Hill, etc!