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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Harvard, Oxford, Yale, Stanford, MIT

Princeton, Cambridge, Columbia, Berkeley, maybe Caltech, maybe Wharton

Cornell, Johns Hopkins, UChicago, Northwestern, Duke, non-Wharton Penn, LSE

UCLA, NYU, USC, Georgetown, UCL

I think that’s it. Grew up between Southeast Asia, Middle East and Europe.

+1. This is the most accurate list.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Harvard, Oxford, Yale, Stanford, MIT

Princeton, Cambridge, Columbia, Berkeley, maybe Caltech, maybe Wharton

Cornell, Johns Hopkins, UChicago, Northwestern, Duke, non-Wharton Penn, LSE

UCLA, NYU, USC, Georgetown, UCL

I think that’s it. Grew up between Southeast Asia, Middle East and Europe.

+1. This is the most accurate list.

Absolutely not. Never heard of many of the schools listed here including John Hopkins, Georgetown, Berkely, Caltech, Wharton, USC (you got to be joking), NYU...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Harvard, Oxford, Yale, Stanford, MIT

Princeton, Cambridge, Columbia, Berkeley, maybe Caltech, maybe Wharton

Cornell, Johns Hopkins, UChicago, Northwestern, Duke, non-Wharton Penn, LSE

UCLA, NYU, USC, Georgetown, UCL

I think that’s it. Grew up between Southeast Asia, Middle East and Europe.

+1. This is the most accurate list.

Absolutely not. Never heard of many of the schools listed here including John Hopkins, Georgetown, Berkely, Caltech, Wharton, USC (you got to be joking), NYU...

Are you a non-American?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Harvard, Oxford, Yale, Stanford, MIT

Princeton, Cambridge, Columbia, Berkeley, maybe Caltech, maybe Wharton

Cornell, Johns Hopkins, UChicago, Northwestern, Duke, non-Wharton Penn, LSE

UCLA, NYU, USC, Georgetown, UCL

I think that’s it. Grew up between Southeast Asia, Middle East and Europe.

+1. This is the most accurate list.

Absolutely not. Never heard of many of the schools listed here including John Hopkins, Georgetown, Berkely, Caltech, Wharton, USC (you got to be joking), NYU...

That's your problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm Asian who studied in both UK and the US. Before coming to the west, I have certainly heard of the Ivies. All of the Ivies (no such thing as "little ivies") and they were known as the top schools in the US.

The “little Ivies” (traditionally Amherst, Williams and Wesleyan) are a real thing, whether you heard about them in Asia or not. Please don’t pretend to know more about American education than people who grew up in America with first-hand knowledge of the system.

I know more than you and "little Ivies" is NOT a real thing. It's made up! By people like you and the criteria can be fast and loose.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm Asian who studied in both UK and the US. Before coming to the west, I have certainly heard of the Ivies. All of the Ivies (no such thing as "little ivies") and they were known as the top schools in the US.

The “little Ivies” (traditionally Amherst, Williams and Wesleyan) are a real thing, whether you heard about them in Asia or not. Please don’t pretend to know more about American education than people who grew up in America with first-hand knowledge of the system.

I know more than you and "little Ivies" is NOT a real thing. It's made up! By people like you and the criteria can be fast and loose.

DP. Agree. No one serious cares about "little Ivies". It might have been written about at some point or another by someone obscure decades ago, but it has absolutely zero significance in real life. Certainly not outside the US, where people don't even care about SLACs.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm Asian who studied in both UK and the US. Before coming to the west, I have certainly heard of the Ivies. All of the Ivies (no such thing as "little ivies") and they were known as the top schools in the US.

The “little Ivies” (traditionally Amherst, Williams and Wesleyan) are a real thing, whether you heard about them in Asia or not. Please don’t pretend to know more about American education than people who grew up in America with first-hand knowledge of the system.

Are you insane? The PP didn't pretend to be an expert in the US education system. He's just responding to the OP's question, as a foreigner. Why are you responding to this thread anyway.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Harvard, Oxford, Yale, Stanford, MIT

Princeton, Cambridge, Columbia, Berkeley, maybe Caltech, maybe Wharton

Cornell, Johns Hopkins, UChicago, Northwestern, Duke, non-Wharton Penn, LSE

UCLA, NYU, USC, Georgetown, UCL

I think that’s it. Grew up between Southeast Asia, Middle East and Europe.

+1. This is the most accurate list.

Absolutely not. Never heard of many of the schools listed here including John Hopkins, Georgetown, Berkely, Caltech, Wharton, USC (you got to be joking), NYU...

Are you a non-American?

Yes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stanford, USC and UCLA are highly regarded in Taiwan

USC? (I'm spitting out my taro bubble tea now in shock).

No, it’s Cal

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Harvard, Oxford, Yale, Stanford, MIT

Princeton, Cambridge, Columbia, Berkeley, maybe Caltech, maybe Wharton

Cornell, Johns Hopkins, UChicago, Northwestern, Duke, non-Wharton Penn, LSE

UCLA, NYU, USC, Georgetown, UCL

I think that’s it. Grew up between Southeast Asia, Middle East and Europe.

+1. This is the most accurate list.

Absolutely not. Never heard of many of the schools listed here including John Hopkins, Georgetown, Berkely, Caltech, Wharton, USC (you got to be joking), NYU...

Are you a non-American?

Yes

Have you considered the possibility that the schools you had heard of are different from the schools that others have heard of?

[Anonymous]

HYP

Stanford, MIT, Berkeley

Caltech, Wharton, Columbia.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm Asian who studied in both UK and the US. Before coming to the west, I have certainly heard of the Ivies. All of the Ivies (no such thing as "little ivies") and they were known as the top schools in the US.

+1. I went to Harvard and have never heard of “Little Ivies” … maybe with good reason

[Anonymous]

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

When I did int'l hiring, we were told that U of London/LSE, Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, St Andrews, Hague, Leiden, Sorbonne, Bologna, Jagellonian, McGill, Toronto, Dalhousie, UC Dublin and TC Dublin, Ljubljana, Cape Town, Witwatersrand, Moscow GU, and someplace I don't recall were the top 20 that were presumptively as good as a high-end US university, if not better.

Not Ecole Polytechnique?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:HYP

Stanford, MIT, Berkeley

Caltech, Wharton, Columbia.

The list above is most accurate as far as which US schools are most prestigious/well-known outside of US. They really don't know and don't care about schools such as Duke, NW, Rice, Emory, Washington, ND etc.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:S/O the thread regarding "prestigious colleges" and "brand name colleges."

Same 20-25 colleges which make all ranking lists every year.

Ivies, Stanford, MIT, Johns Hopkins, U Chicago, Duke, Rice, Vanderbilt, CalTech, CMU, Northwestern, NYU, UC Berkeley.

NYU and Berkeley do not make most top 25 lists. Replace them with Emory, WashU

Berkeley is huge in the Asian Countries, along with UCLA