Normalized Index, No.1 = 1.00
Raw Index = Admit Rate × (1 − Yield Rate) × 100
Normalized Index = (Raw Index ÷ No.1 Raw Index)
Based on published data from last THREE years
Tier 1 — Benchmark cluster
- Harvard University — 1.00
- Stanford University — 1.01
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 1.04
- Yale University — 1.20
- Princeton University — 1.23
Tier 2 — Clear elite
- University of Chicago — 1.40 ( this school 首创 ED0 :-)
- Columbia University — 1.47
- California Institute of Technology — 1.53
- University of Pennsylvania — 1.67
- Duke University — 1.80
Tier 3 — Strong but separated
- Brown University — 1.87
- Dartmouth College — 1.93
- Northwestern University — 2.07
- Vanderbilt University — 2.13
- Johns Hopkins University — 2.33
Tier 4 — Top 20 boundary
- Rice University — 2.47
- Cornell University — 2.67
- University of Notre Dame — 2.80
- Georgetown University — 3.00
- Carnegie Mellon University — 3.20
