Prestige colleges

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm an HYPS grad and the only schools worth the premium (i.e. I would send my kid to) are the Ivies, Chicago, Duke, Stanford, Northwestern, MIT, Hopkins, Amherst, or Williams. Caltech and Harvey Mudd if they're engineers. These are the only true "prestige colleges" in America.

Chicago is not worth shit. Their ROI is consistently at or a notch above public universities. Employers aren’t impressed.

[Anonymous]

Nonsense

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's like a luxury brand. Not making a value judgment here, but are you the type that would value a Hermes scarf, or would you prefer to wear something cheaper off the rack at Walmart? A Canada Goose jacket, or a generic from Wegman's?

No it isn’t. Education is very different. I would value a Walmart scarf or a generic jacket from Wegman’s (??).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's like a luxury brand. Not making a value judgment here, but are you the type that would value a Hermes scarf, or would you prefer to wear something cheaper off the rack at Walmart? A Canada Goose jacket, or a generic from Wegman's?

No it isn’t. Education is very different. I would value a Walmart scarf or a generic jacket from Wegman’s (??).

Well good for you. But for the many people who like luxury brands, the analogy will ring true.