University reputations are primarily based on its law school
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Anonymous
| That’s why Harvard and Yale are the most prestigious. |
Anonymous
Then why is Princeton famous? Why isn’t Stanford seen at the absolute top? |
Anonymous
| Reputation is based mostly on sports teams, which explains a lot more (but, admittedly, not Harvard). |
Anonymous
Absolutely, I went to a decent SLAC and nobody knows it. My coworker went to Bowdoin and barely anyone knows it either. Americans outside of a few really know schools with good sports teams. |
Anonymous
| why do we need another garbage thread like this? this was done already |
Anonymous
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There was already a thread on this last month.
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1229992.page |
Anonymous
| princeton, mit, hopkins, caltech say stfu |
Anonymous
they can't help themselves. We will get another ranking thread and another vibe thread by the end of the day |
Anonymous
| Not true. Based more on graduate schools overall like medical and business as well as sports teams. |
Anonymous
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General reputations are largely based on name recognition.
Even great schools like Duke, Georgetown, and Notre Dame were helped significantly national brand wise by basketball or football from the 70s-90s. |
Anonymous
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What?
No. |
Anonymous
How else could you afford to send your kid to elite private if you are not a big law partner? |
Anonymous
Then why isn't NYU viewed more favorably compared to MIT, Brown, Princeton, Dartmouth, or John Hopkins where they don't even have a law school. Heck NYU law school is generally viewed more favorably than the law schools at Cornell, Northwestern, Duke, Penn, or Chicago. |
Anonymous
But something like 45% of the students at Bowdoin are varsity athletes. |
Anonymous
| Harvard has had a law school for barely half its existence (1817 vs 1636) |