What Schools Do You Consider “Prestigious?”
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Anonymous
| Just curious what the cutoff for prestige is for people in the DMV. Just HPSM? Does it extend further? |
Anonymous
| No college is “prestigious” in 2023. You want real prestige? Go to trade school and become a welder, electrician, or plumber. Or, hell, get licensed as a commercial trucker. Those professions command respect from people in a way that a degree from Snowflake University could never hope to parallel. |
Anonymous
| None. |
Anonymous
Those are all important and respectable professions but let’s not kid ourselves about what prestige they enable. You think an electrical engineering degree from MIT is less prestigious than learning how to be an electrician from trade school? |
Anonymous
| Just being real, not state schools. Not even IC Berkeley. Of course HYPMS, but also the “lower” Ivies and also the odd private school like Northwestern and Emory and probably a few more if I really thought about it. |
Anonymous
What is wrong with you? |
Anonymous
I'm waiting for a friend to weigh in to ensure their school makes the prestige cut - and I'm not talking about MI or UVA boosters (who get way too much grief here), but people who really think their life - or their children's - is going to turn out horribly wrong if they attend a public school, etc. Must be top USNWR for universities or LACs, but no publics, absolutely no publics. And all of this when they pretty much lead a very ordinary life with no real professional accomplishment to point to at the end of the day. |
Anonymous
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Someone should just bite and add Yale. That is clearly what the OP is waiting for. Does prestige extend to Yale in 2023? Tough question.
Once you hit 30 no one really cares anyway, especially if you're just talking about undergrad. |
Anonymous
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HPSM (no Y)
Oxford Cambridge Wharton Sciences Po Georgetown SFS |
Anonymous
It is kind of sad that people would respond to this thread with an actual list. This could very well be OP though  !
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Anonymous
This must be the same poster who loves to exclude Yale since everyone everywhere includes Y in HYP. Must have an ax to grind. |
Anonymous
FWIW I have a relative who attended Emory in undergrad (now employed as a physician). She did not realize, in her forties, that Spain was not an actor in World War 2. |
Anonymous
| I guess any school with less than 10% acceptance rate, more than $50K tuition and more than $5 billion endowment should meet your "prestigious" standard. |
Anonymous
| I actually think of art/design/music/performance colleges when I think of prestigious places. Places like RISD, Juilliard, Tisch, etc. |
Anonymous
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I consider below “elite”:
Harvard Stanford MIT Yale Princeton Caltech Penn Chicago Duke Northwestern Dartmouth Brown Cornell Johns Hopkins |