If you are a foreigner, what schools apart from H/Y/P do you consider "prestigious"

[Anonymous]

I'm an American and I don't think I've ever heard of Rockefeller -- well at least a college with that name. (I know who Rockefeller was).

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Anonymous wrote:MIT, Stanford, maybe one or two others. Berkeley?
Few people outside the US have heard of any of these small liberal arts places like Williams.

There sure are a lot of internationals who are aware of Amherst. It offers generous aid to internationals.

No, there aren't. I bet less than one in a thousand people even in the UK would have heard of Amherst.

I have 5 friends from S. Am. That went to Amherst. (Honduras, Columbia, Peru)

Well done. That is great for you, but irrelevant for this discussion.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MIT, Stanford, maybe one or two others. Berkeley?
Few people outside the US have heard of any of these small liberal arts places like Williams.

There sure are a lot of internationals who are aware of Amherst. It offers generous aid to internationals.

No, there aren't. I bet less than one in a thousand people even in the UK would have heard of Amherst.

I have 5 friends from S. Am. That went to Amherst. (Honduras, Columbia, Peru)

Well done. That is great for you, but irrelevant for this discussion.

Well they are foreigners and they went to a prestigious college. How is it irrelevant? They abviously "heard" of Amherst.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm an American and I don't think I've ever heard of Rockefeller -- well at least a college with that name. (I know who Rockefeller was).

Rockefeller is a very prestigious graduate school in NYC for the biological and natural sciences-plenty of Nobel laureates there.

[Anonymous]

I just straw-polled three foreigners. Ivies, MIT, Cal Tech, Chicago, a handful of others, and about half the state universities. They knew UVA and W+M; they did not know VT. They knew Duke and UNC. I emphasized "prestigious" and the list didn't lengthen.

[Anonymous]

Really you do not think that foreigners know how to google?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MIT, Stanford, maybe one or two others. Berkeley?
Few people outside the US have heard of any of these small liberal arts places like Williams.

There sure are a lot of internationals who are aware of Amherst. It offers generous aid to internationals.

No, there aren't. I bet less than one in a thousand people even in the UK would have heard of Amherst.

I have 5 friends from S. Am. That went to Amherst. (Honduras, Columbia, Peru)

Well done. That is great for you, but irrelevant for this discussion.

Well they are foreigners and they went to a prestigious college. How is it irrelevant? They abviously "heard" of Amherst.

Because the question was about what schools foreigners consider prestigious, not what colleges have foreigners attending. There are foreigners in every college and university, even north dakota.

Imagine a thought experiment:

Suppose I know some foreigners in North Dakota University

I am on a website and someone asks "What schools do foreigners consider prestigious?"

Do I then start yabbering on about all the foreigns I know at North Dakota University?

No, I don't. Because it is not relevant.

Hope this helps!

[Anonymous]

Conversely what foreign universities do Americans consider prestigious...or even have heard of?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm pretty sure many of them know of Georgetown as it has a huge international contingency.

+1.
And SMU.

What is SMU? Southern Methodist University? I'm being serious.

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And then someone Posts "a lot of internationals are aware of Amherst" and somebody else says "no. There aren't." Yet, I know Amherst recruits in s. and c am. I post that information.

Move on... Yes international people know what Amherst is. If you don't believe it I don't care. But it is relevant to the conversation.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MIT, Stanford, maybe one or two others. Berkeley?
Few people outside the US have heard of any of these small liberal arts places like Williams.

There sure are a lot of internationals who are aware of Amherst. It offers generous aid to internationals.

No, there aren't. I bet less than one in a thousand people even in the UK would have heard of Amherst.

I have 5 friends from S. Am. That went to Amherst. (Honduras, Columbia, Peru)

Well done. That is great for you, but irrelevant for this discussion.

Well they are foreigners and they went to a prestigious college. How is it irrelevant? They abviously "heard" of Amherst.

Because the question was about what schools foreigners consider prestigious, not what colleges have foreigners attending. There are foreigners in every college and university, even north dakota.

Imagine a thought experiment:

Suppose I know some foreigners in North Dakota University

I am on a website and someone asks "What schools do foreigners consider prestigious?"

Do I then start yabbering on about all the foreigns I know at North Dakota University?

No, I don't. Because it is not relevant.

Hope this helps!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm pretty sure many of them know of Georgetown as it has a huge international contingency.

+1.
And SMU.

What is SMU? Southern Methodist University? I'm being serious.

It can't be? The idea of something called "Southern Methodist University" being prestigious outside the US mouthbreathing community is ludicrous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Conversely what foreign universities do Americans consider prestigious...or even have heard of?

Oxford, Cambridge. Honestly that's about it for me. I've heard of others, McGill, Imperial College of London, Heidelberg, University of Tokyo etc. I assume those are great universities, but I don't put them in the HPY, MIT, Stanford, Oxford/Cambridge class. Of course, I'm just going by my perception, and reality might be very different.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm pretty sure many of them know of Georgetown as it has a huge international contingency.

+1.
And SMU.

What is SMU? Southern Methodist University? I'm being serious.

It can't be? The idea of something called "Southern Methodist University" being prestigious outside the US mouthbreathing community is ludicrous.

I think it was a joke. I hope it was a joke.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Conversely what foreign universities do Americans consider prestigious...or even have heard of?

McGill in Canada
Oxford and Cambridge in the UK

That's about it

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Conversely what foreign universities do Americans consider prestigious...or even have heard of?

McGill in Canada
Oxford and Cambridge in the UK

That's about it

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