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

[Anonymous]

My Midwest relatives seem impressed that my DC is at Purdue studying engineering.

[Anonymous]

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

Nope

[Anonymous]

It’s Notre Dame. Northwestern is full of coastal kids. And Chicago undergrad isn’t known to anyone unless they’re weirdos who study US News.

Notre Dame is a peer to Duke, but football instead of basketball.

[Anonymous]

Is this Univ of Chicago being so great a new thing? I grew up in the 80s in the Great Plains just south of Chicago and Northwestern was school I always heard mentioned, never Univ of Chicago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Chicago or Northwestern.

Nobody cares about either on the coasts. NU is a regional Chicago power. UChicago undergrad is a non-factory.

The answer is Notre Dame, to the chagrin of non Catholics. Michigan and Illinois for engineering.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is this Univ of Chicago being so great a new thing? I grew up in the 80s in the Great Plains just south of Chicago and Northwestern was school I always heard mentioned, never Univ of Chicago.

Fake cyber hype spread my psycho parents who sent their Ivy reject kids there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Chicago or Northwestern.

Nobody cares about either on the coasts. NU is a regional Chicago power. UChicago undergrad is a non-factory.

The answer is Notre Dame, to the chagrin of non Catholics. Michigan and Illinois for engineering.

Huh. Midwestern native now living on the east coast, and I’d say it’s the exact opposite.

[Anonymous]

Not even comparable. Chicago with an 11% admission rate is far more selective than Notre Dame at 20%. In my Yale law school class there were a lot of Chicago undergrads - none from Notre Dame

[Anonymous]

Northwestern or Notre Dame

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My dad's entire side of the family went to UChicago. I went to Illinois. I would say that probably the "most prestigious" would be Northwestern, but I would be sure to point out that I don't think that "most prestigious" means "best education." Just "snobbiest."

As a midwesterner, would say Washington University St. Louis or Notre Dame.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My dad's entire side of the family went to UChicago. I went to Illinois. I would say that probably the "most prestigious" would be Northwestern, but I would be sure to point out that I don't think that "most prestigious" means "best education." Just "snobbiest."

As a midwesterner, would say Washington University St. Louis or Notre Dame.

Or Purdue.

[Anonymous]

Chicago

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
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.

Bill Gates son Rory will be attending UChicago this fall. Not sure Gates would qualify as rich

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not even comparable. Chicago with an 11% admission rate is far more selective than Notre Dame at 20%. In my Yale law school class there were a lot of Chicago undergrads - none from Notre Dame

Oops, Chicago's admission rate this year was 7% with an 80% yield.

[Anonymous]

Carleton for a LAC, Chicago/Northwestern for a university. Notre Dame is a good school and it’s hard to get into, but it is lacking the prestige factor because it is so Catholic that it feels limited in its appeal.