What Schools Do You Consider “Prestigious?”
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Anonymous
Lol, we know which schools your snowflakes were rejected from. This isn't supposed to be a gripe thread. |
Anonymous
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Then Ivies are pretty much entirely legacies, athletes, and URM. So not the necessarily the smartest or most competent.
The top students with the most potential are most likely in the #15 to #50 schools. |
Anonymous
so? |
Anonymous
keep dreaming. based on what? |
Anonymous
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A comprehensive list based upon wide consensus would probably include the following colleges and universities:
Amherst, Barnard, Bates, Bowdoin, Brown, Bryn Mawr, Cal (Berkeley), Cal Tech, Carnegie Mellon, Carleton, Chicago, Colby, Colgate, Columbia, Cornell, Claremont McKenna, Curtis (Institute of Music), Dartmouth, Davidson, Duke, Emory, Georgetown, Grinnell, Hamilton, Haverford, Harvard, Harvey Mudd, Howard, Johns Hopkins, Juilliard, Kenyon, Michigan, Middlebury, MIT, Mount Holyoke, Northwestern, Notre Dame, NYU, Oberlin, Olin, Penn, Pomona, Princeton, Reed, Rice, RISD, Scripps, Spelman, Stanford, St. John's College (Annapolis & Santa Fe), Smith, Swarthmore, UCLA, UNC, USC, UT Austin, UVA, Vanderbilt, Vassar, Washington & Lee, Wellesley, Wesleyan, Williams, Wisconsin (Madison), WUSTL, Yale and the U.S. academies (West Point et al). So approximately 70 schools out of 653 national university and liberal arts colleges combined according to U.S. News and World Report which in turn is approximately 2.5% of all 4-year U.S. colleges and universities and 1.6% of all U.S. colleges and universities. |
Anonymous
+1 Oh great - yet another gripe thread! |
Anonymous
Yale is still Yale cmon ladies - Rory Gilmore didn’t go to Wesleyan or Williams, she went to Yale! but I have to agree with Vandy / Rice comment, they both have it going on these days. My DCs immediate and extended friend group (which is humungous) in the region all luv these 2 schools. Even the ones aiming for HYPMS consider these 2 schools “fun and cool”, which are two words never attributed to Cornell or JHU. Times change - both had a 70% acceptance rate not too long ago, and too much of DCUMs collective memory is firmly rooted in the past. Other than the extreme lefties, who Vandy and Rice don’t want anyway! |
Anonymous
Troll much? Harvard Yale Princeton Stanford MIT Cal Tech UPenn Dartmouth Brown Cornell (UChicago, Columbia, Hopkins, Northwestern) Williams Amherst 16 |
Anonymous
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Propaganda by rich White ALDC |
Anonymous
perfect list - just take out Dartmouth and Amherst well done! |
Anonymous
Obvious anti-Duke troll as many are on DCUM. Also if you’re going to include Williams and Amherst, you might as well add Swarthmore and Pomona |
Anonymous
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West Point
Annapolis Nearly any of the other service academies No offense but these folks have multiple talents to include athleticism, leadership and spatial, community service. You are going to enter the last true meritocracy in America. All of the others can be bought. |
Anonymous
I’m sorry, but overall the kids at the service academies are academically blown out of the water by most kids at T10 schools. And many of those kids will just work out/participate in intramural or club sports on their own. People who are going to push the boundaries in math, science, etc. don’t enroll at service academies. |
Anonymous
WashU and Rice are better than Cornell? |
Anonymous
Expect Rice and Vandy to drop in the rankings this year, especially Rice. |