What Schools Do You Consider “Prestigious?”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I consider below “elite”:

Harvard
Stanford
MIT
Yale
Princeton
Caltech
Penn
Chicago
Duke
Northwestern
Dartmouth
Brown
Cornell
Johns Hopkins

+ Columbia

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just curious what the cutoff for prestige is for people in the DMV. Just HPSM? Does it extend further?

Top 50 in today’ s world. No a welder is not.

[Anonymous]

Majoring in things like English, Communicatin, etc at Harvard is not precious. Majoring in CS at CMU is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:HPSM (no Y)
Oxford
Cambridge
Wharton
Sciences Po
Georgetown SFS

This must be the same poster who loves to exclude Yale since everyone everywhere includes Y in HYP. Must have an ax to grind.

The posters who are mad about HYPSM are always selling something. Usually they're trying to pass off bottom tier "Ivy League" schools as just as good as HYP.

[Anonymous]

MIT
Cal Tech
Juilliard


Knowing kids who have gone to Harvard, Cornell, etc. made it less prestigious for me. There are probably amazing people who have gone to those schools. The kids I know are smart, but not geniuses. They all have family money and one also had athletic ability.

[Anonymous]

I think that most people who have been through this process emerge humbler on the other side of it, with an appreciation for a much wider array of schools. And no, public schools are not lesser than private schools!

[Anonymous]

If you are adding Julliard, then you may as well also add Berkelee School of Music in Boston.

[Anonymous]

Feels like the way to go is:

HPSM
Caltech
Yale
Wharton
Duke
Columbia

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you are adding Julliard, then you may as well also add Berkelee School of Music in Boston.

Did you mean to write: Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia ?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Feels like the way to go is:

HPSM
Caltech
Yale
Wharton
Duke
Columbia

So Williams, Rice, Swarthmore, Amherst, Chicago, CMU, Hopkins... aren't prestigious?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

Lol ok

[Anonymous]

Harvard
Princeton
Yale
Hopkins
Annapolis
West Point
MIT
Stanford

These are the institutions most important to the United States.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you are adding Julliard, then you may as well also add Berkelee School of Music in Boston.

Berkelee has like 50% acceptance rate

Anonymous wrote:I actually think of art/design/music/performance colleges when I think of prestigious places. Places like RISD, Juilliard, Tisch, etc.

RISD has like 30% acceptance rate.
Other art programs like CMU Design has 7%, Yale art 5%, USC SCA 3% acceptance rate.
They require both artistic talent and brain (academic achievement) to get in.

[Anonymous]

HYPSM
Duke
Northeastern
U Chicago

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

I’m a lawyer from an T10 law school and I didn’t know that until this post just now that I am reading at 38. Add that to your list of “people who didn’t learn a lot about WWII” I guess.