Which colleges are considered top elite in the US?
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Anonymous
| Most will agree the tippy top is Harvard, Princeton, Yale, MIT, Stanford. |
Anonymous
Removing Rice and Hopkins which are more well known nationally - especially Hopkins compared to any LAC is funny. Especially since the top 3 LACs suck at stem and have no engineering. |
Anonymous
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My personal real world list would be
MIT Stanford Harvard Princeton Duke Penn CalTech Yale Chicago Brown Columbia Northwestern Rice Dartmouth Vanderbilt Michigan Cornell Georgetown Carnegie Mellon Johns Hopkins UC-Berkeley UCLA Notre Dame Williams Amherst Naval Academy West Point |
Anonymous
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There's also nuances to this. I'm not impressed by an engineering major from Harvard, Yale, Brown, Dartmouth.
It's like getting a Master's in Education at any of these schools and calling yourself an ivy grad. It's dilution. |
Anonymous
Rice is not that well known. Hopkins is great for premed and math...and that's about the whole list. No, the top 3 lacs don't suck at STEM, they create a significant amount of top researchers and produce PHDs in the hard sciences and math. The engineering obsession has decayed your brain. |
Anonymous
You sound angry with little maturity as an LAC graduate. It's ok, Swarthmore, Williams not being known nationally compared to Hopkins and Rice isn't the end of the world. The fact that the LAC majors have to go to grad school at places like Hopkins and Rice along with other actual research universities to gain legitimacy just owned your own argument. |
Anonymous
You sound angry lol. I'm from Texas myself, and rice is rah-rah everything there. Telling a west coast or really a northeast person that you went to rice will produce a blank stare. The network stays in Texas for the most part, and they have a great niche...in STEM. I never attended an LAC, Princeton was too flattering, but anyone who has attended an ivy understands that LACs really aren't to be undermined experiences. I don't think any of the top lacs send more than a few per decade to rice or hopkins, but you know where the students are going? The other institutions on this list. |
Anonymous
Rice literally has a DI program and plays many schools nationally. I'm in California, and it is well known. Nice try saying you went to Princeton. Almost as believable as LACs sending only a few decade to Rice or Hopkins: https://today.williams.edu/announcements/3_25_2021_nsf_grad_fellows/ "University of Colorado at Boulder; John Graf ’21, a mathematics major from Boulder, Colo.; Robin Huang ’21, an economics and mathematics major from Cranbury, N.J.; Peter Lugthart ’18, who studies economics at Northwestern University; Sophia Robert ’18, who studies cognitive neuroscience at Carnegie-Mellon University; Paige Knowles Robichaud ’21, a physics major from Austin, Texas; Emily Stump ’18, who studies quantum information science at Cornell University; Kaleb Yitong Tseo ’17, who studies bioinformatics and other informatics; and Austin Hoang-Nam Vo ’18, who studies sociology at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill" Wow such impressive places like UNC, Colorado, Northwestern, CMU. Much better than Hopkins and Rice. lolz. Keep in mind, these are the top Williams grad school applicants. |
Anonymous
Oh I get it. You're a massive troll. Wasting my time trying to convince me and others that Williams isn't prestigious, because they're sending students to CMU (which is one of the best CS schools, so not really getting the point) and Northwestern (better than JHU and Rice at economics) is strange. |
Anonymous
Bizarre since Hopkins and Rice are better in a number of fields compared to others on your list. But then again, you think LACs are more well known nationally, Rice is only rah rah in Texas, and that Hopkins is only good in math and premed is pretty dumb. |
Anonymous
You’re an idiot then. What’s your engineering experience? |
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Here's some quick info since you cant get basic facts right:
Hopkins grad rankings: #8 Education (NU, CMU unranked) #6 Bio (NU #32, CMU #37) #14 Engineering (NU #16, CMU #7) #22 economics (NU #8, #21 CMU) #20 chem (NU #6, #38 CMU) #13 english (NU #13, CMU #41) #13 physics (NU #21, CMU #28) #12 psychology (NU #9, CMU #28) #1 public health (#29, CMU unranked) #7 Sociology (CMU unranked) Nevermind, Hopkins only good at Math and premed. |
Anonymous
Chances are I'm smarter than you. It's a low bar. Went to MIT and now work in FNG. |
Anonymous
The STEM circlejerk happens too often here that I'm beginning to believe this is DCUD or DCU-kid's who get a C in their into engineering class and feel they're smarter than everyone else in the room. If you think you're smarter than everyone else in the forum, there's a great quote that is often used in STEM leadership circles that you'll love.
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Anonymous
Further evidence of brain decay here. Somehow extrapolates thinking being smarter than one person is equivalent to entire room. |