What Schools Do You Consider “Prestigious?”
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Anonymous
You folks are insufferable. Perhaps because you were miserable when you were there. |
Anonymous
Indeed! Blue collar jobs are not "prestigious ". I do not think that poster knows what the word means. |
Anonymous
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MIT
Stanford Harvard Princeton Cal Tech Penn, but only Wharton Vanderbilt Rice Duke Williams Juiliard West Point Naval Academy Other schools have great programs, but for overall "prestige" in the US, I think that's it. |
Anonymous
And you would be hopelessly in over your head on the former. |
Anonymous
Vanderbilt, but not Yale? Lol. No |
Anonymous
| Rice? Another big no |
Anonymous
| I can’t believe the UVA crazies haven’t added it in yet. They love a good list! |
Anonymous
Yale hasn't been a meaningful university in 30 years. Vanderbilt and Rice have it going on these days. Times change |
Anonymous
Pomona and Swarthmore have surpassed Williams and Amherst selectivity wise. They are not in brutally cold areas either, which helps attract students and faculty! |
Anonymous
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This thread was just set up to get people to take the Yale bait. Let this one go...
No one actually cares about what a few random anonymous posters think about college prestige. If you want to give a legitimate list, at least provide some minimal credentials about yourself so we can decide whether to give your opinion any weight. Degrees from W top X schools, work in Y industry. |
Anonymous
Aren't Vandy and Rice the Harvard and Yale of the South though? 
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Anonymous
Of that top group, Princeton and MIT are the ones that tend to be a bit overrated in my book (as in not worthy of the very top spot). Princeton is hardly in that Harvard and Yale discussion if not for USNWR (that HYP group that people keep trying to add letters to is written in that order for a reason), and MIT has fairly strong econ and social sciences programs but it just isn't as well rounded as an overall university. MIT has also benefitted from a few not-so-well-designed outcome based studies relating to college-wide salary info (rather than by major). Harvard and Stanford are 1 and 1a in my book when it comes to the total undergrad, grad school, and research package. |
Anonymous
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Harvard. The end.
Kidding, kind of. But what a silly exercise! |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
Harvard is obviously the most famous brand, but the academic quality of the undergraduate experience at Yale and Princeton by every account I’ve ever come across is far superior. |