Differences in prestige over WashU versus an ivy like Cornell, Dartmouth or Brown?

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Anonymous wrote:Lots of dummies on this thread.

Yep, lots of ignorant people with axes to grind

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Anonymous wrote: I have no relationship to WashU but with anyone with familiarity with colleges, it is regarded as a top school filled with bright students. For people unfamilar with colleges, or over ..say 60 years old on either coast ... they may be unware of the school almost completely.

In terms of prestige, a comparison could be made to a top SLAC. Many uninformed people are clueless when it comes to Williams, Amherst etc but that doesn’t mean they are not prestigious.

You must be the peers & ties dude and it kills you to see anyone not idolize wash. So you come back with a comparison that matters to absolutely no one. Consensus of this thread is that wash prestige is a big step down from the Cornell, Dartmouth and Brown. A good school for smart kids still.

NP - you seem to have a fixed mindset. Are you the same poster who keeps posting over and over “STL is gross”? I don’t attend but I believe its prestige (which you seem to so slavishly care about) is on par with the non HYP Ivies.

Aww, you're confused. I don't care about prestige at all and I never commented on St Louis. But I do find the wash/cmu tie ranking interesting and suspect both are good for smart kids and similar gritty down-to-earth metropolitan areas.

Too much seems to be made of St. Louis. The school is adjacent to St Louis in the fancier area but is kind of a bubble. There is nothing gritty at all about the WashU campus. Might be one of the most pristine, manicured college environments I have ever seen.

When the only thing within hours of driving is an apocalyptic crime scene of a city, it definitely matters.

Oh….you’ve never been there.

I have and I wish I could erase it from my memories.

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I travel a lot for work and STL is by far my least favorite city.

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I’ve also been to many places. St Louis is actually a historic, charming and affordable city. Sure, it has dangerous areas but what city doesn’t.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve also been to many places. St Louis is actually a historic, charming and affordable city. Sure, it has dangerous areas but what city doesn’t.

One of the worst cities in the USA. Come for the university, and stay for the meth.