[Test-Grave]

Just out of interest, what is usually considered "top-tier"?

Where is the cutoff after the obvious choices? Georgia Tech? UT Austin? University of Florida? etc. etc.

[Spoom]

My impression is, Harvard, Yale, MIT, Stanford, Waterloo, full stop.

[fapjacks]

For CS? Add Carnagie Mellon and Caltech. THEN full stop.

[leeny]

I concur with this assessment.

[aaronchall]

Waterloo? Full question mark.

[WalterGR]

UC Berkeley.