What prestigious colleges are easiest to get into?

[Anonymous]

Everyone here is confusing prestigious with well known. None of them are prestigious. Prestigious would be ivy's or top ten public universities or NESCAQ'S, highly selective schools.

[Anonymous]

Yeah, I think we've established that "prestigious" is not the best adjective when looking for "easy to get onto." It seems the thread has evolved to "best colleges that aren't ridiculously hard to get into."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, I think we've established that "prestigious" is not the best adjective when looking for "easy to get onto." It seems the thread has evolved to "best colleges that aren't ridiculously hard to get into."

For me, prestigious elicits from other parents when learnig where your kid is going, if not an ooh and ahhh, then at least a sincerely expressed "awesome" or the like. It's the pregnant pause responses that signify that what they are really thinking is "your kid must be a fucking moron."

Bates is a school that I think most would not roll their eyes at, but is, relatively speaking, easy to get into.

[Anonymous]

USN&WR ranks the following National Universities followed by acceptance rates (Fall 2012):

#23 UVA (29.6%);
#23 Michigan (26.6%);
#32 NYU (35%);
#37 PSU (54%);
#47 U Miami (FL) (39%);
#52 Tulane (23%);
#62 Clemson(58%)/ Syracuse(51%)/ UMCP(47%)/ PITT(56%);
#69 VA Tech(70%);
#75 UDel(56.6%);
#91 Auburn(77%)/Florida State(54%)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:USN&WR ranks the following National Universities followed by acceptance rates (Fall 2012):

#23 UVA (29.6%);
#23 Michigan (26.6%);
#32 NYU (35%);
#37 PSU (54%);
#47 U Miami (FL) (39%);
#52 Tulane (23%);
#62 Clemson(58%)/ Syracuse(51%)/ UMCP(47%)/ PITT(56%);
#69 VA Tech(70%);
#75 UDel(56.6%);
#91 Auburn(77%)/Florida State(54%)

Michigan is #27, below UVA

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:USN&WR ranks the following National Universities followed by acceptance rates (Fall 2012):

#23 UVA (29.6%);
#28* Michigan (26.6%);
#32 NYU (35%);
#37 PSU (54%);
#47 U Miami (FL) (39%);
#52 Tulane (23%);
#62 Clemson(58%)/ Syracuse(51%)/ UMCP(47%)/ PITT(56%);
#69 VA Tech(70%);
#75 UDel(56.6%);
#91 Auburn(77%)/Florida State(54%)

*correction

[Anonymous]

The women's colleges are easier to get into compared to comparable co-ed colleges with the same reputation and quality of education. This is because the populations are fairly self-selecting. There are just simply not that many girls who want to be at a woman's college anymore. In fact, one girl I know who would have been competitive at a number of schools but really really wanted to go to Smith was a lesbian.

That said, they offer great educations, and for a girl who is on the fence, schools that have partnerships with other co-ed schools might be preferable to women's colleges that are more isolated. Smith and Mount Holyoke are in a consortium with Amherst, U-MASS Amherst, and Hampshire where students can take classes at any of the 5 schools; Barnard and Columbia have a joint agreement; Scripps is part of the Claremont consortium.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The women's colleges are easier to get into compared to comparable co-ed colleges with the same reputation and quality of education. This is because the populations are fairly self-selecting. There are just simply not that many girls who want to be at a woman's college anymore. In fact, one girl I know who would have been competitive at a number of schools but really really wanted to go to Smith was a lesbian.

That said, they offer great educations, and for a girl who is on the fence, schools that have partnerships with other co-ed schools might be preferable to women's colleges that are more isolated. Smith and Mount Holyoke are in a consortium with Amherst, U-MASS Amherst, and Hampshire where students can take classes at any of the 5 schools; Barnard and Columbia have a joint agreement; Scripps is part of the Claremont consortium.

+1

You left out Bryn Mawr which is in a consortium with Haverford and Swarthmore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, I think we've established that "prestigious" is not the best adjective when looking for "easy to get onto." It seems the thread has evolved to "best colleges that aren't ridiculously hard to get into."

For me, prestigious elicits from other parents when learnig where your kid is going, if not an ooh and ahhh, then at least a sincerely expressed "awesome" or the like. It's the pregnant pause responses that signify that what they are really thinking is "your kid must be a fucking moron."

Bates is a school that I think most would not roll their eyes at, but is, relatively speaking, easy to get into.

I hope that you're younger than 16 or that I don't know you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The ones that are far away and don't see as many applications from D.C. And I agree that if you can pay full price that also seems to be an advantage, especially at SLACs.
As for University of Chicago -- it was the king of this category until it started taking the common application.

Ok, I have to jump on this one. The most prestigious schools have need blind admissions. The ability to pay is not a factor. Also, some of the very top schools also cap the amount of debt with which you can graduate. Since we are talking about women's colleges, I will note that Wellesley is one of the group with need blind admissions and capped debt. I think there are 6 or so other schools that do this. If I remember correctly, Williams is one of them.

I stand corrected, you of course are right about many top schools being need blind -- the students I was thinking of also are well connected, so I'm sure that's what made the difference. This being D.C. after all.

[Anonymous]

Oberlin.

[Anonymous]

Johns Hopkins undergrad

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Johns Hopkins undergrad

Not easy to get into. But extremely prestigious, though ironically, not in this area.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:USN&WR ranks the following National Universities followed by acceptance rates (Fall 2012):
#12 Johns Hopkins(17.7%); Northeastern(15%);
#23 UVA (29.6%);
#28* Michigan (26.6%);
#32 NYU (35%);
#37 PSU (54%);
#47 U Miami (FL) (39%);
#52 Tulane (23%);
#62 Clemson(58%)/ Syracuse(51%)/ UMCP(47%)/ PITT(56%);
#69 VA Tech(70%);
#75 UDel(56.6%);
#91 Auburn(77%)/Florida State(54%)

[Anonymous]

Look for schools from #20 to #50 with acceptance rates 5+ percentage points greater than their rankings.

#23 Wake (34%)
#37 PSU (54%)
#41 BU (46%)