What Schools Do You Consider “Prestigious?”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:http://opportunityinsights.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/CollegeAdmissions_Paper.pdf

The schools listed in the study as elite are the elite schools.
It separates Ivy Plus as the 8 is plus MIT, Stanford, Duke, and Uchicago
And then other elite as
USC, Vanderbilt, Georgetown, Northwestern, WashU, NYU, Notre Dame, Emory, Johns Hopkins, Carnegie Mellon ,Rice ,and Caltech.

I personally would add Williams , Amherst, Pomona, Wellesley, and Swarthmore. There's around 30 elite schools which makes sense for a population of 300 million +. I think it's safe to leave this opinion to the experts.

You forgot to mention that the study only included private schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:http://opportunityinsights.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/CollegeAdmissions_Paper.pdf

The schools listed in the study as elite are the elite schools.
It separates Ivy Plus as the 8 is plus MIT, Stanford, Duke, and Uchicago
And then other elite as
USC, Vanderbilt, Georgetown, Northwestern, WashU, NYU, Notre Dame, Emory, Johns Hopkins, Carnegie Mellon ,Rice ,and Caltech.

I personally would add Williams , Amherst, Pomona, Wellesley, and Swarthmore. There's around 30 elite schools which makes sense for a population of 300 million +. I think it's safe to leave this opinion to the experts.

You forgot to mention that the study only included private schools.

The study does mention public schools. The wealthiest Americans will overwhelmingly send their kids to private schools. Starting with a sliver spoon in your mouth has its advantages.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:http://opportunityinsights.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/CollegeAdmissions_Paper.pdf

The schools listed in the study as elite are the elite schools.
It separates Ivy Plus as the 8 is plus MIT, Stanford, Duke, and Uchicago
And then other elite as
USC, Vanderbilt, Georgetown, Northwestern, WashU, NYU, Notre Dame, Emory, Johns Hopkins, Carnegie Mellon ,Rice ,and Caltech.

I personally would add Williams , Amherst, Pomona, Wellesley, and Swarthmore. There's around 30 elite schools which makes sense for a population of 300 million +. I think it's safe to leave this opinion to the experts.

You forgot to mention that the study only included private schools.

At the undergrad grad level only UCLA and Berkeley can compete with these schools.

[Anonymous]

Could someone include that aggregate list again? I feel like I've seen it before. The same person hasn't added it to dozens of threads, have they?

[Anonymous]

Berkeley and UCLA are very prestigious on the west coast and they've also been able to get a lot of respect and name recognition abroad, particularly in east Asia.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is a big scam by rich white people who try hard to promote their school brands as "prestigious" after they send their ALDC kids to these schools for easy majors. Middle-class people should be aware of this. If you blindly think that "Harvard" is such a prestigious name, so you will be all set spending a ton of money, that could be a big mistake.

CMU CS, NYU Stern, GT SFS etc. are more prestigious than useless majors at those school names that keep popping up.

If it's really prestigious, it will be highly valued in society, industries, and the real world.

Harvard English: $49,675
https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/school/?166027-Harvard-University&fos_code=2301&fos_credential=3

Northwestern Psychology: $61,389
https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/school/?147767-Northwestern-University&fos_code=0999&fos_credential=3

Does it look prestigious? They are simply not.
Now

CMU Elect Engineering: $$149,740
https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/school/?211440-Carnegie-Mellon-University&fos_code=1107&fos_credential=3

Northeastern CS: $132,227
https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/school/?167358-Northeastern-University

Boston College Finance: $110,242
https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/school/?164924-Boston-College&fos_code=5208&fos_credential=3

These seem more serious and prestigious.
If someone throws out some school names and tries to convince you that they are prestigious, it is likely a rich white person with an ALDC kid trying to scam you. Watch Out.

LOL! 😂😂 If you ever want to know what a striver is, save this post.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is a big scam by rich white people who try hard to promote their school brands as "prestigious" after they send their ALDC kids to these schools for easy majors. Middle-class people should be aware of this. If you blindly think that "Harvard" is such a prestigious name, so you will be all set spending a ton of money, that could be a big mistake.

CMU CS, NYU Stern, GT SFS etc. are more prestigious than useless majors at those school names that keep popping up.

If it's really prestigious, it will be highly valued in society, industries, and the real world.

Harvard English: $49,675
https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/school/?166027-Harvard-University&fos_code=2301&fos_credential=3

Northwestern Psychology: $61,389
https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/school/?147767-Northwestern-University&fos_code=0999&fos_credential=3

Does it look prestigious? They are simply not.
Now

CMU Elect Engineering: $$149,740
https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/school/?211440-Carnegie-Mellon-University&fos_code=1107&fos_credential=3

Northeastern CS: $132,227
https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/school/?167358-Northeastern-University

Boston College Finance: $110,242
https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/school/?164924-Boston-College&fos_code=5208&fos_credential=3

These seem more serious and prestigious.
If someone throws out some school names and tries to convince you that they are prestigious, it is likely a rich white person with an ALDC kid trying to scam you. Watch Out.

LOL! 😂😂 If you ever want to know what a striver is, save this post.

Why use striver pejoratively? Is it not good to "strive" for more? Interesting priorities if you think not. Plus, look at the reality of college admissions. Not everyone can get into Harvard or Duke. There are programs at other schools that are more affordable and can set kids up nearly as well for their careers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I actually think of art/design/music/performance colleges when I think of prestigious places. Places like RISD, Juilliard, Tisch, etc.

NP and I agree. I could have been admitted to Harvard, out of nothing but sheer luck. I'm literally not eligible for Juilliard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is a big scam by rich white people who try hard to promote their school brands as "prestigious" after they send their ALDC kids to these schools for easy majors. Middle-class people should be aware of this. If you blindly think that "Harvard" is such a prestigious name, so you will be all set spending a ton of money, that could be a big mistake.

CMU CS, NYU Stern, GT SFS etc. are more prestigious than useless majors at those school names that keep popping up.

If it's really prestigious, it will be highly valued in society, industries, and the real world.

Harvard English: $49,675
https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/school/?166027-Harvard-University&fos_code=2301&fos_credential=3

Northwestern Psychology: $61,389
https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/school/?147767-Northwestern-University&fos_code=0999&fos_credential=3

Does it look prestigious? They are simply not.
Now

CMU Elect Engineering: $$149,740
https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/school/?211440-Carnegie-Mellon-University&fos_code=1107&fos_credential=3

Northeastern CS: $132,227
https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/school/?167358-Northeastern-University

Boston College Finance: $110,242
https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/school/?164924-Boston-College&fos_code=5208&fos_credential=3

These seem more serious and prestigious.
If someone throws out some school names and tries to convince you that they are prestigious, it is likely a rich white person with an ALDC kid trying to scam you. Watch Out.

LOL! 😂😂 If you ever want to know what a striver is, save this post.

You must be an ALDC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

The OP is about prestigious, not who has the smartest kids.

- NP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Duke, Indiana, Kansas, North Caroline, Kentucky, and UCLA

In March, yes!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

NP. Agree with the PP. The post didn’t specify best academic institution. It asked about most prestigious. The service academies are absolutely equally prestigious as many school mentioned due to requiring multiple talents and mental/physical fortitude far beyond other institutions. You can’t buy your way in and a perfect test score won’t help you either. You need to be a far more well rounded person than just a good test taker and starting a non profit.

+1 if the conversation is laser focused on "prestige" then West Point and Annapolis are up there.

You military boosters are hilarious. West Point and Annapolis are akin to Notre Dame in my eyes - culty and prestigious for a certain group of people (Catholics for Notre Dame, veterans for West Point/Annapolis). No one is taking West Point or Annapolis over a T10 unless they have a deep family military history or a weirdly strong desire to join the military. The kids who feel this way and who are smart enough to get into a T10 are likely in the single digits each year. Their 75th percentile test scores don't even reach the 25th percentile test scores at T10s.

Again, this conversation isn't about "best." It's about most prestigious. And yeah, the academies are in the mix.

[Anonymous]

In a sense, the most prestigious colleges are those that relatively few people are even aware of. And the very few people for whom these schools are so familiar as to be household names of sorts are the highly, highly elite. They're the ultrawealthy with fortunes that originate a century ago, leaders of various foreign countries, CEOs of major brands, high-profile media figures and celebrities. A well-known and popular school can be prestigious to an extent, but Amherst's prestige is on another level because no one who is not a master of the universe has ever heard of it.

[Anonymous]

College of Magic is the most prestidigitious

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:http://opportunityinsights.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/CollegeAdmissions_Paper.pdf

The schools listed in the study as elite are the elite schools.
It separates Ivy Plus as the 8 is plus MIT, Stanford, Duke, and Uchicago
And then other elite as
USC, Vanderbilt, Georgetown, Northwestern, WashU, NYU, Notre Dame, Emory, Johns Hopkins, Carnegie Mellon ,Rice ,and Caltech.

I personally would add Williams , Amherst, Pomona, Wellesley, and Swarthmore. There's around 30 elite schools which makes sense for a population of 300 million +. I think it's safe to leave this opinion to the experts.

+1