As a young woman graduating from a first tier school early and with honors, I was fairly confident in my ability to create my own success.
And yet apply she did, and found herself at a second-tier school, ranking in the top ten of her class, making the law review and ultimately scoring a gig with a big firm.
This was a fourth-tier school.
A "cascading" effect was proposed in which minority students who would have attended a first-tier school under affirmative action have now been shuffled to second-tier schools.
In comparing these two groups, the data suggest that the students who attend the first tier schools do less well in terms of academic performance in college, but that they are as likely to graduate, as likely to have a satisfactory college experience, and as likely -- indeed, more likely -- to get good jobs upon graduation than their peers at second tier schools.
I've got to understand the steel plant, I've got to understand every piece at a second tier, a third tier and a fourth tier below that.
The narrator, Seymour Herson, is an adolescent isolate at Glendale Academy, a second-tier private school in Manhattan.
Seymour, a sorry prospect at a second-tier Manhattan prep school and the narrator of Rich's caustic first novel, becomes a pawn in the schemes of a wily and wealthy classmate who is determined to make him a popular student.
Kuznets also looks at Calvin's other fantasies, suggesting that they are a second tier of fantasies utilized in places like school where transitional objects such as Hobbes would not be socially acceptable.
Amazon is in the second tierbut at least there is a second tier, Crupnick said.
