To you, what's the bottom of the "elite" colleges?

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Anonymous wrote:Nobody gives a shit about Princeton

Lol. There is no more crazed cult than the tigers. You clearly don't know any of them.

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Anonymous wrote:Harvard/Yale/Stanford/MIT
Princeton/Columbia
Chicago/Penn
Duke/Northwestern

^That’s the definitive T10 in my mind. Caltech is a fantastic school but way too small and way too niche, and not socially elite.

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Although Columbia probably belongs in a tier of its own below Princeton

Columbia definitely belongs in a tier of its own below Princeton

Harvard/Yale/Stanford/MIT
Princeton
Columbia
Chicago/Penn
Duke/Northwestern

Princeton’s claim to fame for the past 50 years or so has been Brooke Shields. That’s it.

What? Princeton alumni and faculty won 5 Nobels this year alone. For a school with 4,000 students, that is amazing. It is not Princeton's fault if you are too dumb to understand what they do and prefer to focus on celebrities.

You missed the whole point about Brooke Shields. She was boasting she was so smart she slept through the rigor of an ivy. She published her transcript as a “proof” she graduated with >3.6 gpa. That incident created a scandal in the country. For the first time, people were able to see what a Mickey Mouse university Princeton truly is. Anyone can graduate from Princeton with basket weaving and swimming courses.

I don't know anybody who pays the slightest attention to Brooke Shields. I know quite a few brilliant people who struggled mightily for more than a year to complete their undergraduate Princeton thesis in math or physics or history.

Believe it or not, the entire country noted the transcript from Micky Mouse University. Even lawmakers got in the act to toughen up university students at the time.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1987-08-22-8703080724-story,amp.html

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1987? Really?

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Anonymous wrote:Nobody gives a shit about Princeton

The entire reason threads like this exist is some loser’s resentment of one school - Princeton - getting named the top national university 11 times in a row by US News. It fuels your compulsion to come up with a different and equally meaningless list.

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Actually though, between HYP, Princeton is the least favored and the least talked about, by far. The only reason it retains a semblance of prestige is because it’s so high up on US News, and that’s about it. Otherwise it’s the racist pretentious nest of last year’s WASP wannabes.

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Does Princeton have any notable alumni of the last couple of decades other than Brooke Shields? Honestly asking.

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Anonymous wrote:Does Princeton have any notable alumni of the last couple of decades other than Brooke Shields? Honestly asking.

Notable does not equal celebrity. Get a dictionary. If you are asking about celebrities, who cares? Look it up yourself.

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Anonymous wrote:Does Princeton have any notable alumni of the last couple of decades other than Brooke Shields? Honestly asking.

Notable does not equal celebrity. Get a dictionary. If you are asking about celebrities, who cares? Look it up yourself.

Uh, when did I say celebrity? I said notable. Learn to read.

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Anonymous wrote:I’d put Wellesley back in. Elite people have heard of elite schools. Hillary gave it a boost.

18 Elites [No Wellesley]:
1 - Harvard [The "Brand" despite its underwhelming campus and undergraduate education]
2 - Stanford/Yale/MIT/Princeton [I would go to Stanford or Yale, if I could get in]
6 - Columbia/Penn/Caltech [Columbia just outside of the top 5 is still a phenomenal institution with elite plus status in the best city]
9 - Chicago/Duke/Northwestern
12 - Dartmouth/Brown/Cornell/Hopkins/Berkley/Amherst/Williams [only 1 public and 2 SLACs deserve elite status]

Just missed the cut: Swathmore, Pomona, Harvey Mudd

Stanford and MIT should be in a tier of their own since they have global recognition that Yale and Princeton lacks.

I would still put Columbia in the Yale/Princeton tier. I think most would agree that Columbia's in between the two tiers, but it's closer to Yale and Princeton. Just as there's no reason to cut out 3 schools from this list to say that the top 15 schools are elite, having a top 5 is sort of an arbitrary cutoff.

1 - Harvard
2 - Stanford/MIT
4 - Yale/Princeton/Columbia
7 - Penn/Caltech
9 - Chicago/Duke/Northwestern
12 - Dartmouth/Brown/Cornell/Hopkins/Berkeley/Amherst/Williams

You're just parroting US News ranking. You offer nothing insightful.

You can agree with this list all you want. It’s important only to you ... and your grandma.

Agree.
1 - Harvard
2 - Stanford/Yale/MIT/Princeton
6 - Columbia/Penn/Caltech
9 - Chicago/Duke/Northwestern
12 - Dartmouth/Brown/Cornell/Hopkins/Berkley

I agree w this

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Anonymous wrote:Does Princeton have any notable alumni of the last couple of decades other than Brooke Shields? Honestly asking.

Notable does not equal celebrity. Get a dictionary. If you are asking about celebrities, who cares? Look it up yourself.

Uh, when did I say celebrity? I said notable. Learn to read.

Try Google. It is a handy little tool to answer questions plus as a bonus..it is run by a tiger.

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Anonymous wrote:I’d put Wellesley back in. Elite people have heard of elite schools. Hillary gave it a boost.

18 Elites [No Wellesley]:
1 - Harvard [The "Brand" despite its underwhelming campus and undergraduate education]
2 - Stanford/Yale/MIT/Princeton [I would go to Stanford or Yale, if I could get in]
6 - Columbia/Penn/Caltech [Columbia just outside of the top 5 is still a phenomenal institution with elite plus status in the best city]
9 - Chicago/Duke/Northwestern
12 - Dartmouth/Brown/Cornell/Hopkins/Berkley/Amherst/Williams [only 1 public and 2 SLACs deserve elite status]

Just missed the cut: Swathmore, Pomona, Harvey Mudd

Stanford and MIT should be in a tier of their own since they have global recognition that Yale and Princeton lacks.

I would still put Columbia in the Yale/Princeton tier. I think most would agree that Columbia's in between the two tiers, but it's closer to Yale and Princeton. Just as there's no reason to cut out 3 schools from this list to say that the top 15 schools are elite, having a top 5 is sort of an arbitrary cutoff.

1 - Harvard
2 - Stanford/MIT
4 - Yale/Princeton/Columbia
7 - Penn/Caltech
9 - Chicago/Duke/Northwestern
12 - Dartmouth/Brown/Cornell/Hopkins/Berkeley/Amherst/Williams

You're just parroting US News ranking. You offer nothing insightful.

Agree.
1 - Harvard
2 - Stanford/Yale/MIT/Princeton
6 - Columbia/Penn/Caltech
9 - Chicago/Duke/Northwestern
12 - Dartmouth/Brown/Cornell/Hopkins/Berkley

I agree w this

You can agree with this list all you want. It’s important only to you ... and your grandma.

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Anonymous wrote:Does Princeton have any notable alumni of the last couple of decades other than Brooke Shields? Honestly asking.

Notable does not equal celebrity. Get a dictionary. If you are asking about celebrities, who cares? Look it up yourself.

Uh, when did I say celebrity? I said notable. Learn to read.

Try Google. It is a handy little tool to answer questions plus as a bonus..it is run by a tiger.

Sundar Pichai is the chief executive officer (CEO) of Alphabet Inc. and its subsidiary Google.

Pichai completed schooling in Jawahar Vidyalaya Senior Secondary School,[17] a Central Board of Secondary Education school in Ashok Nagar, Chennai and completed the Class XII from Vana Vani school at IIT Madras.[18][19] He earned his degree from IIT Kharagpur in metallurgical engineering and is a distinguished alumnus from that institution.[20] He holds an M.S. from Stanford University in materials science and engineering, and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania,[21] where he was named a Siebel Scholar and a Palmer Scholar, respectively.

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Harvard
Yale
Stanford
MIT
Princeton
Columbia
Chicago
Penn
Northwestern
Duke

But all are excellent schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Harvard
Yale
Stanford
MIT
Princeton
Columbia
Chicago
Penn
Northwestern
Duke
But all are excellent schools.

NW is known for campus rape culture. Doesn’t belong with elite ladies and gentlemen’s club. It’s a low-class, vulgar, animal house.

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Anonymous wrote:Actually though, between HYP, Princeton is the least favored and the least talked about, by far. The only reason it retains a semblance of prestige is because it’s so high up on US News, and that’s about it. Otherwise it’s the racist pretentious nest of last year’s WASP wannabes.

Yeah, all those famous WASPs like Jeff Bezos, Michelle Obama, Elena Kagan, Sonya Sotomayor, Samuel Alito.

Of course, there are some WASPs, like the current head of the Federal Reserve, the former CEO of Google, the current President of Microsoft, etc.