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

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

MIT

[Anonymous]

MIT, Stanford, maybe one or two others. Berkeley?
Few people outside the US have heard of any of these small liberal arts places like Williams.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MIT, Stanford, maybe one or two others. Berkeley?
Few people outside the US have heard of any of these small liberal arts places like Williams.

There sure are a lot of internationals who are aware of Amherst. It offers generous aid to internationals.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MIT, Stanford, maybe one or two others. Berkeley?
Few people outside the US have heard of any of these small liberal arts places like Williams.

There sure are a lot of internationals who are aware of Amherst. It offers generous aid to internationals.

No, there aren't. I bet less than one in a thousand people even in the UK would have heard of Amherst.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:MIT, Stanford, maybe one or two others. Berkeley?
Few people outside the US have heard of any of these small liberal arts places like Williams.

Yes. Even the well-informed in Asia have never heard of places like Williams - or Swarthmore, or Duke, or Northwestern (all places my DD is applying to and dying to attend).

They seem to know of the big state schools in Cali, but that's about it.

[Anonymous]

I'm pretty sure many of them know of Georgetown as it has a huge international contingency.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm pretty sure many of them know of Georgetown as it has a huge international contingency.

+1.
And SMU.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm pretty sure many of them know of Georgetown as it has a huge international contingency.

OK, lets stop all this nonsense now. There are a lot of universities in the states that have a lot of foreigners. That does not mean that they would be considered prestigious. Before I moved here if someone told me they went to Georgetown that would have meant nothing to me, and I was by no means ignorant about the US.

There are only a handful of schools that your average well-educated foreigner would have heard of/consider prestigious, and they are h/y/p plus one or two others like MIT, Stanford, etc.

I have lived here more than a decade and have no idea what "SMU" is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MIT, Stanford, maybe one or two others. Berkeley?
Few people outside the US have heard of any of these small liberal arts places like Williams.

There sure are a lot of internationals who are aware of Amherst. It offers generous aid to internationals.

Nope. MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, yes. Amherst, Williams, what is that?

(I am not the PP above, just reinforcing the point)

[Anonymous]

Agree with MIT, Stanford and UC Berkeley.

On the other hand, I went to University of Kansas for undergrad and in certain developing countries, KU had a great reputation among the elites who would send their kids (and then cousins would follow) - for example the journalism school (various newspaper-owning families in several South American countries) and engineering (various Middle Eastern countries).

[Anonymous]

Cornell? Columbia? Penn.

[Anonymous]

Columbia, Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Chicago, Stanford, MIT

[Anonymous]

Stanford, Berkley, Carnegie-Mellon, Rockefeller, Cornell-Memorial Sloan Kettering, Columbia, Brandeis, Dartmouth, Brown, UPenn, Johns Hopkins, University of Washington-Seattle, Northwestern, Washington University-St. Louis, University of Wisconson-Madison, Princeton.

These are schools with strong engineering and science programs, so it can be very field-specific.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MIT, Stanford, maybe one or two others. Berkeley?
Few people outside the US have heard of any of these small liberal arts places like Williams.

There sure are a lot of internationals who are aware of Amherst. It offers generous aid to internationals.

No, there aren't. I bet less than one in a thousand people even in the UK would have heard of Amherst.

I have 5 friends from S. Am. That went to Amherst. (Honduras, Columbia, Peru)