what do you consider to be the "prestigious/non-prestigious" cut-off?

[Anonymous]

This thread reminds me of the people who make $450K complaining that they are poor because they are in the 2% instead of the 1%.

[Anonymous]

Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth, Williams, Amherst, Brown, Duke, Stanford, MIT, Caltech, Columbia, Swarthmore

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The academy's , the Ivys, Hopkins , Chicago , Stanford ,MIT.

That's it.

First of all, learn how to pluralize. Your grammar is shameful. Second, there are plenty of other schools outside of your list that are considered as prestigious or more than the ones you named. Off the top of my head, Duke, Amherst, Haverford, and Vassar come to mind, but if I thought about it there are plenty of others.

No they aren't.

You don't think Duke is more prestigious than UPenn?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The academy's , the Ivys, Hopkins , Chicago , Stanford ,MIT.

That's it.

First of all, learn how to pluralize. Your grammar is shameful. Second, there are plenty of other schools outside of your list that are considered as prestigious or more than the ones you named. Off the top of my head, Duke, Amherst, Haverford, and Vassar come to mind, but if I thought about it there are plenty of others.

No they aren't.

I could not care less about prestige and did not attend any of the schools bolded above, but I think this limited list is the right one. Although I would exclude Air Force.

[Anonymous]

Obviously there is no single short list for "prestigious" colleges - they fall onto a spectrum. And much rests in the eye of the beholder.

[Anonymous]

If you define prestigiousness as "schools that your average person will have heard of", the answer is Harvard, Alabama, Florida State, Oregon and Ohio State.

If you define prestigiousness as "schools that your average educated person definitely will have heard of", the list is Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford and MIT.

If you define prestigiousness as "schools that people who care about prestige think are prestigious", then here is the list: http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges

If you define prestigiousness as "schools that will give you a hiring advantage" the answer is nothing, because people hire off of more than your pedigree. (Unless you work in investment banking, but that's a different can of worms).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Ivy "plus" group (includes Stanford, Univ of Chicago) is prestigious.

The national liberal arts colleges are prestigious (Amherst, Williams, Grinnell, etc.).

Everything else is... well, very worth going to. Better, in many ways.

Way to work Grinnell in there. Nice try.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Ivy "plus" group (includes Stanford, Univ of Chicago) is prestigious.

The national liberal arts colleges are prestigious (Amherst, Williams, Grinnell, etc.).

Everything else is... well, very worth going to. Better, in many ways.

Way to work Grinnell in there. Nice try.

LOL

I'm sure Grinnell is a great place with bright students and profs.

But nobody cares.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The academy's , the Ivys, Hopkins , Chicago , Stanford ,MIT.

That's it.

First of all, learn how to pluralize. Your grammar is shameful. Second, there are plenty of other schools outside of your list that are considered as prestigious or more than the ones you named. Off the top of my head, Duke, Amherst, Haverford, and Vassar come to mind, but if I thought about it there are plenty of others.

No they aren't.

You don't think Duke is more prestigious than UPenn?

NP here. No, I don't think Duke is more prestigious than UPenn, and I doubt many others do, either, unless the context is an office betting pool. And what is Haverford doing in 2nd PP's list, while Swarthmore (arguably somewhat prestigious) is absent?

I thought this thread might be amusing, and it delivered.

In all seriousness, though, every school mentioned here is a fantastic school for the right kid. "Prestige" isn't always what matters. And who knows what people mean when they say "prestigious," anyway.

[Anonymous]

Pretty sure the cutoff line will be whatever school my kid matriculates to, with his school being on the prestigious side.

[Anonymous]

Top 20 on US News + world Report.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Ivy "plus" group (includes Stanford, Univ of Chicago) is prestigious.

The national liberal arts colleges are prestigious (Amherst, Williams, Grinnell, etc.).

Everything else is... well, very worth going to. Better, in many ways.

Way to work Grinnell in there. Nice try.

LOL

I'm sure Grinnell is a great place with bright students and profs.

But nobody cares.

Funny. I should try to work my dump of a college in, as well.

[Anonymous]

First of all, learn how to pluralize. Your grammar is shameful. Second, there are plenty of other schools outside of your list that are considered as prestigious or more than the ones you named. Off the top of my head, Duke, Amherst, Haverford, and Vassar come to mind, but if I thought about it there are plenty of others.


No they aren't.

You don't think Duke is more prestigious than UPenn?

NP here. No, I don't think Duke is more prestigious than UPenn, and I doubt many others do, either, unless the context is an office betting pool. And what is Haverford doing in 2nd PP's list, while Swarthmore (arguably somewhat prestigious) is absent?

+1 UPenn is an Ivy. Duke is not, and will never be.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

First of all, learn how to pluralize. Your grammar is shameful. Second, there are plenty of other schools outside of your list that are considered as prestigious or more than the ones you named. Off the top of my head, Duke, Amherst, Haverford, and Vassar come to mind, but if I thought about it there are plenty of others.


No they aren't.

You don't think Duke is more prestigious than UPenn?

NP here. No, I don't think Duke is more prestigious than UPenn, and I doubt many others do, either, unless the context is an office betting pool. And what is Haverford doing in 2nd PP's list, while Swarthmore (arguably somewhat prestigious) is absent?

+1 UPenn is an Ivy. Duke is not, and will never be.

Neither is Stanford, nor will it ever be. Nor MIT. They are more prestigious than that bastion of the Ivy League, Cornell.

[Anonymous]

Stanford, Hopkins and MIT are in a different league than Duke.