What do people consider the most prestigious college in the Midwest?

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Anonymous wrote:What is the major?

Exactly! If you're studying engineering, the answer is Illinois-Urbana. If you want to study music, the answer is Indiana University.

No way. Michigan, with its proximity to the heart of the U.S. Auto industry, is the best engineering school in Midwest.

Followed by Carnegie Mellon if Pittsburgh counts as Midwest and then Purdue.

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Agree the top schools are Chocago, Northwestern, Michigan and Notre Dame and, yes, Oberkin as a slac.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm from the Midwest and honestly never heard of Oberlin until I started reading DCUM!

Me either!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm from the Midwest and honestly never heard of Oberlin until I started reading DCUM!

Me either!

No one in the Midwest cares about it. It is a weird DC phenomenon. I have my theories about why.

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Anonymous wrote:Wait:

What do most people in the Midwest consider the most prestigious college?

or

What do most people in DC consider the most prestigious college in the Midwest?

Exactly, PP! My family, from the Midwest and all college graduates, all think that the lead is Notre Dame, followed by Creighton. State schools like Nebraska and Michigan are in the mix for top 10 as well as Rice. U of Chicago isn't even in the top 50 or 100.

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"No way. Michigan, with its proximity to the heart of the U.S. Auto industry, is the best engineering school in Midwest.

Followed by Carnegie Mellon if Pittsburgh counts as Midwest and then Purdue."

Way to close to call.

USNews has Illinois tied with Michigan and ahead of CMU and Purdue but they are #6, #6, #8, #8 so you really can't judge them by engineering overall.

You have to pick a type of engineering and then ask the question.

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The Midwest is more diverse than that — there’s no Midwestern consensus on most prestigious school — answers are affected by locale, class, field, religion, generation, etc. When my lower middle class parents were growing up in Cleveland, Northwestern would have been their answer —it’s where the rich kids go. Wanna be an engineer or doctor? Case Western’s the place to be. They were amused when I decided to apply to Harvard. AFAICT, no one from their HS ever had. When I took my DC to visit Northwestern, everyone we talked to (eg cab driver, busboy, Oberlin freshman) said you gotta check out UChicago — Northwestern is great but UChicago is world famous,

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University of Chicago.


For undergrad? No chance. How can something be prestigious if most have never even heard of it. And household income of undergrad students at Chicago is low. It’s just not a place very many rich and prestige conscious families target.

You've got to be kidding. There are not many people who have never heard of UChicago. If you are among them, that says more about you than it does about the school.

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Notre Dame? Northwestern? Michigan?


I grew up in the Midwest and went to Northwestern and have never actually seen the University of Chicago campus, but, clearly, the University of Chicago.

I'm sure that Notre Dame is a great university, and it might rank higher than I think it does in all sorts of ratings, but it wouldn't have occurred to me till I saw this post to think of Notre Dame as being in the same class as these other schools.

I think of the University of Chicago as being for extreme intellectuals, Northwestern as a school for bright people who to be corporate executives, Michigan as a fine all-purpose school, and Notre Dame as a school with great sports teams and great parties.



You know nothing about Notre Dame. Plenty of kids who get into Northwestern wouldn't get into Notre Dame. (And vice versa, at that level of admissions)
But yes, Chicago is the correct answer.

Completely inaccurate. ND is very hard to get into.

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Anonymous wrote:Notre Dame? Northwestern? Michigan?

I grew up in the Midwest and went to Northwestern and have never actually seen the University of Chicago campus, but, clearly, the University of Chicago.

I'm sure that Notre Dame is a great university, and it might rank higher than I think it does in all sorts of ratings, but it wouldn't have occurred to me till I saw this post to think of Notre Dame as being in the same class as these other schools.

I think of the University of Chicago as being for extreme intellectuals, Northwestern as a school for bright people who to be corporate executives, Michigan as a fine all-purpose school, and Notre Dame as a school with great sports teams and great parties.

So, you think of Notre Dame like an SEC school? Sure you do. Troll or dumbass.

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"No way. Michigan, with its proximity to the heart of the U.S. Auto industry, is the best engineering school in Midwest.

Followed by Carnegie Mellon if Pittsburgh counts as Midwest and then Purdue."

Way to close to call.

USNews has Illinois tied with Michigan and ahead of CMU and Purdue but they are #6, #6, #8, #8 so you really can't judge them by engineering overall.

You have to pick a type of engineering and then ask the question.

Um, no. Pittsburgh is in PA. That is the East, not the Midwest.

[Anonymous]

Pittsburg is def in the Midwest. PA is pretty big and extends beyond the east coast

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wait:

What do most people in the Midwest consider the most prestigious college?

or

What do most people in DC consider the most prestigious college in the Midwest?

Exactly, PP! My family, from the Midwest and all college graduates, all think that the lead is Notre Dame, followed by Creighton. State schools like Nebraska and Michigan are in the mix for top 10 as well as Rice. U of Chicago isn't even in the top 50 or 100.

Winner of the dumb post of the day. Creighton? Rice (which is in Houston)? Chicago not in the top 100 in the Midwest? Quite sure your family of college grads would rather you stop speaking for them.

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Anonymous wrote:Pittsburg is def in the Midwest. PA is pretty big and extends beyond the east coast

I am from Pittsburgh and do not, under any circumstances, consider myself a Midwesterner. Neither would any of my hometown friends/family.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm from the Midwest and honestly never heard of Oberlin until I started reading DCUM!

Me either!

No one in the Midwest cares about it. It is a weird DC phenomenon. I have my theories about why.

My theory: Midwesterners tend to be hearty, practical people. Spending $75K/year for your kid to get a degree in anthropology or oboe performance IN GENERAL does not strike me as the kind of thing people with Midwestern sensibilities would do.