@Django19

I respectfully disagree with your opinion. No way Rutgers (#40) and UMD (#46) are tier 4 IMO. Admissions rate do not equate to quality or outcomes - and public universities are required to be accessible for their in-state residents instead of exclusive.

@feralhamster2429

Clearly this person has no clue how difficult it is to get into eg UCSD or Rutgers for computer science or engineering

@mckinseyand2022

Tier1 - US News Ranking Top 20 
Tier2 - US News Top 40
Tier3 - US News Top 60
Tier4 - US News Top 100

@prabhavkaula9697

Since when did Berkeley become tier 2 ☠️☠️☠️

@MidnightVentures

Rutgers and Maryland tier 4??? Those are 
 prestigious schools.

@AnhNhu-xu6cr

Idk about other disciplines but UMD (U Maryland - College Park) is extremely selective in STEM, and it’s definitely tier 1.  I’m going to UMD but also got accepted to UChicago and Northwestern for PhD EE/CS with very high honor awards at those schools (full tuition + $5xxxx/yr assistantship). I’m not sure about the general public, but to the world-class experts in many STEM fields, UMD is a big name, especially in CS/Physics/Math. When I presented and did the networking at several premier conferences in both CS and physical sciences (ICML, AMS, AGU), it’s super easy to break the ice by saying I’m an UMD student since those top people often know/has worked with several other top scientists from UMD.

The same can be said for Berkeley, just that Berkeley is on their own league academically along with MIT/Stanford/Harvard. Berkeley is a huge name with extreme prestige and is mad respected by the most intelligent people on the planet but often overlooked by average folks.

@KingKalin1

Tier 1 highly accurate. Thank you much. Have a good week!

@Da_Vinchi_Code

None of those schools in tier 2 are tier 2. They are all tier 1. With Berkeley being higher on the tier 1 list

@10sDog

This is unfortunately inaccurate since your video mixes some schools which are basically top 50-60 schools into Tier 4. Suggested improvement: list range of grades, scores, acceptance rates and geography distribution (often this says how respected the school is outside its region). Also you mistake the gap between 1,2 and 3 v 4 and 5. Your gap is actually 1-2, 3-4 (you seem to place top 60 schools into Tier 4)  and then 5. But then Tier 5 seems quite large or defies description (there is a very large range from decent private or state schools to 2-year colleges). So then you are also missing several other tiers. Also your description of "to go to college to have fun and make their family proud" and "trying a lot harder than students in Tier 4 and 5" have NO EVIDENCE. I would say those statements are unusual generalizations.

@KABfromLA

@melinakim Berkeley is the best public university in the country and may as well be of the world, it's not a tier 2 school, its a tier 1

@aldrianspalding4157

UMD is not a tier 4 school, its acceptance rate is 40% and rutgers & temple both have acceptance rates 20-30% higher than UMD yet are in the same category. It should also be noted that a public 40% accpt rate is more comp than a lot of privates aritifically inflated lower accpt rate and that can be measured by the GPA, SAT score, and income outcomes out of college which are all measured by usnews. UMD is a t45 institution and a flagship state worth its salt.

@erickplays3186

Saying WashU can be a safety school for anyone is crazy☠️☠️☠️

@strangetalkwithdoc3141

this is crazy talk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@rutgers182

in what world is maryland and rutgers in tier 4? def tier 3. are these indian mom rankings? lol

@jhkjhkjhkjhkjhk6873

In fact, apart from some universities in tier 2, there's no big problem. Rutgers University is an ordinary university for people living in the area. Of course, it's a good choice

@rishitarora7919

Lmao this video is cap

@chaseg8888

Lot of ignorance in this video,Rutgers and UMD is way hard for normal student now. Many I know with 3.8 and many APs with good SAT are rejected or waitlisted same with UMD. USNEWS is gold standard of ranking, go refer there.

@FF18Cloud

You have to base it on majors and departments

Like, Rutgers, for example, has an amazing CS and engineering department, Liberty has a great game development program

What's a tier 1 is gonna be different for me as it would for others.

Some schools surprisingly get harder to get into, the higher the reputation a department gets

Or hell, the stock of a college could rise as you get into said college (happened with me doing IT game dev at NJIT from 2012-2016, program was new but it was relatively on par with something you'd see at other game PROGRAMMING CS programs, and it blended in super well for me when I went into software engineering when I graduated)

Using NJIT as an example, you could easily get in for history or theater

But hands down would it be MUCH harder getting into their biomedical engineering program. It depends on the majors, lol

@ChandlerHawkins-qf6sp

Where do the "tiers" come from and what makes the source reputable and reliable?

@estrellasky5373

It’s a shame to put UC Berkeley in Tier 2. Already insulting people but saying it’s not an insult.