what do you consider to be the "prestigious/non-prestigious" cut-off?

[Anonymous]

This is a silly question that was inspired by all of the debate here over what people on DCUM consider to be "prestigious," or not.

What do you consider to be the "prestigious/non-prestigious" cut-off, the Mason-Dixon line, below which everything everything is prestigious, and above which everything is non-prestigious?

Let's just get all of the prestige talk into big, happy prestige thread.

[Anonymous]

Huh?

[Anonymous]

huh x 2?

[Anonymous]

Darling, if you have to ask...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Darling, if you have to ask...

Not OP, but I grew up in the Midwest and went to a state school. I have to ask.

Does only the Ivies plus Stanford, Cal Tech, the Claremont colleges, and University of Chicago count? Only HPY? Only the top 20?

[Anonymous]

The academy's , the Ivys, Hopkins , Chicago , Stanford ,MIT.

That's it.

[Anonymous]

Prestigious: Georgetown, Rice, MIT, Princeton and Berkley
Not Prestigious: Penn State, Rutgers, U of Delaware, VATech

[Anonymous]

Prestigious:

Harvard

Non Prestigious:

Everywhere else

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Prestigious:

Harvard

Non Prestigious:

Everywhere else

That's great but at Harvard you and a bunch of crazy people were taught by TAs.

Hope you enjoyed it!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That's great but at Harvard you and a bunch of crazy people were taught by TAs.

Hope you enjoyed it!

Silly poster, pretentiousness has nothing to do with educational quality.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That's great but at Harvard you and a bunch of crazy people were taught by TAs.

Hope you enjoyed it!

Silly poster, pretentiousness has nothing to do with educational quality.

Prestigiousness* but you'll find pretentiousness goes hand in hand with it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The academy's , the Ivys, Hopkins , Chicago , Stanford ,MIT.

That's it.

First of all, learn how to pluralize. Your grammar is shameful. Second, there are plenty of other schools outside of your list that are considered as prestigious or more than the ones you named. Off the top of my head, Duke, Amherst, Haverford, and Vassar come to mind, but if I thought about it there are plenty of others.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The academy's , the Ivys, Hopkins , Chicago , Stanford ,MIT.

That's it.

First of all, learn how to pluralize. Your grammar is shameful. Second, there are plenty of other schools outside of your list that are considered as prestigious or more than the ones you named. Off the top of my head, Duke, Amherst, Haverford, and Vassar come to mind, but if I thought about it there are plenty of others.

No they aren't.

[Anonymous]

Yeah, sorry, they're really not. Good schools but not as prestigious.

[Anonymous]

The Ivy "plus" group (includes Stanford, Univ of Chicago) is prestigious.

The national liberal arts colleges are prestigious (Amherst, Williams, Grinnell, etc.).

Everything else is... well, very worth going to. Better, in many ways.