How prestigious is Vanderbilt?

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Anonymous wrote:Our kid is a Vandy senior and we live in DC. The name has definitely opened several DC doors in the past few years, paving the way for interviews. Kid always gets the interview. Have no idea if this would be true in NYC or west coast tech, but the school is a known quantity in classic DC circles

How does it compare in those circles to northwestern Michigan or Cornell?

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I think the idea of “elite” colleges is asinine, but I went to Princeton, so that’s easy for me to say, which is precisely why I went into debt to choose Princeton.

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Andy beshear is an alum! But back then was easy to get in

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Anonymous wrote:I think that it is prestigious in some circles but I agree with that it doesn't have the universal name recognition of the ivies and elite publics. If I hadn't looked at the ranking before writing this post I would have thought that it was ranked similarly to BC and BU.

Elite publics? Nice try.

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Anonymous wrote:Our kid is a Vandy senior and we live in DC. The name has definitely opened several DC doors in the past few years, paving the way for interviews. Kid always gets the interview. Have no idea if this would be true in NYC or west coast tech, but the school is a known quantity in classic DC circles

How does it compare in those circles to northwestern Michigan or Cornell?

How would I or my kid know this? He just reports what interviewers say during the icebreaker part of the interview. Oh, great school. How do you like Nashville? I Have you taken any classes from Prof. ABC (in poli sci) ?

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Anonymous wrote:I think that it is prestigious in some circles but I agree with that it doesn't have the universal name recognition of the ivies and elite publics. If I hadn't looked at the ranking before writing this post I would have thought that it was ranked similarly to BC and BU.

This is off. Vandy is top elite -- is it MIT, Uchi, HYP -- no but it is in the next tier. Rankings are all messed up now. You cannot use them for anything. There are about 40 elite schools. Yes some are more elite than others but there are about 40. BC is in there -- BU is not. Not the same kids/same results.

If I can't use rely on the rankings then how would I know that Vanderbilt is prestigious, elite or top elite. I have been told my entire life that Ivies are prestigious, that MIT and Stanford are prestigious and that UCLA, Cal and Michigan are prestigious. I have never heard much about Vanderbilt except for them being a perennial SEC football doormat.

Michigan is not prestigious. It's a humongous state school with a so-so football team.

Lol the poster whose kid got rejected from Michigan is back. The football team just won the *national championship* and kids on the east coast routinely pick Michigan over and among other top 20 schools, but whatever.

Michigan is below Georgetown and Emory in prestige.
It's
1.HYPSM
2.Columbia, Duke, Upenn, Caltech, UChicago
3.Dartmouth, Brown, Cornell, Northwestern, Johns Hopkins
4.Vandy, Rice, Notre Dame, Emory, Washu, UCB, Georgetown
5. Umich, UCLA, CMU, USC, UCLA, UNC

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Anonymous wrote:I think that it is prestigious in some circles but I agree with that it doesn't have the universal name recognition of the ivies and elite publics. If I hadn't looked at the ranking before writing this post I would have thought that it was ranked similarly to BC and BU.

This is off. Vandy is top elite -- is it MIT, Uchi, HYP -- no but it is in the next tier. Rankings are all messed up now. You cannot use them for anything. There are about 40 elite schools. Yes some are more elite than others but there are about 40. BC is in there -- BU is not. Not the same kids/same results.

If I can't use rely on the rankings then how would I know that Vanderbilt is prestigious, elite or top elite. I have been told my entire life that Ivies are prestigious, that MIT and Stanford are prestigious and that UCLA, Cal and Michigan are prestigious. I have never heard much about Vanderbilt except for them being a perennial SEC football doormat.

Michigan is not prestigious. It's a humongous state school with a so-so football team.

Lol the poster whose kid got rejected from Michigan is back. The football team just won the *national championship* and kids on the east coast routinely pick Michigan over and among other top 20 schools, but whatever.

Michigan is below Georgetown and Emory in prestige.
It's
1.HYPSM
2.Columbia, Duke, Upenn, Caltech, UChicago
3.Dartmouth, Brown, Cornell, Northwestern, Johns Hopkins
4.Vandy, Rice, Notre Dame, Emory, Washu, UCB, Georgetown
5. Umich, UCLA, CMU, USC, UCLA, UNC

Fair guess, but I think that you slightly underestimate the prestige of Notre Dame, Georgetown, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, UC-Berkeley, & UCLA.

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Anonymous wrote:I think that it is prestigious in some circles but I agree with that it doesn't have the universal name recognition of the ivies and elite publics. If I hadn't looked at the ranking before writing this post I would have thought that it was ranked similarly to BC and BU.

This is off. Vandy is top elite -- is it MIT, Uchi, HYP -- no but it is in the next tier. Rankings are all messed up now. You cannot use them for anything. There are about 40 elite schools. Yes some are more elite than others but there are about 40. BC is in there -- BU is not. Not the same kids/same results.

If I can't use rely on the rankings then how would I know that Vanderbilt is prestigious, elite or top elite. I have been told my entire life that Ivies are prestigious, that MIT and Stanford are prestigious and that UCLA, Cal and Michigan are prestigious. I have never heard much about Vanderbilt except for them being a perennial SEC football doormat.

Michigan is not prestigious. It's a humongous state school with a so-so football team.

Lol the poster whose kid got rejected from Michigan is back. The football team just won the *national championship* and kids on the east coast routinely pick Michigan over and among other top 20 schools, but whatever.

Michigan is below Georgetown and Emory in prestige.
It's
1.HYPSM
2.Columbia, Duke, Upenn, Caltech, UChicago
3.Dartmouth, Brown, Cornell, Northwestern, Johns Hopkins
4.Vandy, Rice, Notre Dame, Emory, Washu, UCB, Georgetown
5. Umich, UCLA, CMU, USC, UCLA, UNC

More like...
1.HYPSM
2a.Columbia, Upenn, Caltech, UChicago
2b. Duke, Brown, Johns Hopkins
3a.Dartmouth, Northwestern
3b. Cornell, Vandy, Rice
4a. Notre Dame, Emory, Washu, UCB, Georgetown
4b. Umich, UCLA, CMU, UCLA
5. UNC, USC

[Anonymous]

You people are nuts.

Love, vandy alum who knows better than to obsess about minute gradations of supposed prestige for undergrads.

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Anonymous wrote:I think that it is prestigious in some circles but I agree with that it doesn't have the universal name recognition of the ivies and elite publics. If I hadn't looked at the ranking before writing this post I would have thought that it was ranked similarly to BC and BU.

This is off. Vandy is top elite -- is it MIT, Uchi, HYP -- no but it is in the next tier. Rankings are all messed up now. You cannot use them for anything. There are about 40 elite schools. Yes some are more elite than others but there are about 40. BC is in there -- BU is not. Not the same kids/same results.

If I can't use rely on the rankings then how would I know that Vanderbilt is prestigious, elite or top elite. I have been told my entire life that Ivies are prestigious, that MIT and Stanford are prestigious and that UCLA, Cal and Michigan are prestigious. I have never heard much about Vanderbilt except for them being a perennial SEC football doormat.

Michigan is not prestigious. It's a humongous state school with a so-so football team.

Lol the poster whose kid got rejected from Michigan is back. The football team just won the *national championship* and kids on the east coast routinely pick Michigan over and among other top 20 schools, but whatever.

Michigan is below Georgetown and Emory in prestige.
It's
1.HYPSM
2.Columbia, Duke, Upenn, Caltech, UChicago
3.Dartmouth, Brown, Cornell, Northwestern, Johns Hopkins
4.Vandy, Rice, Notre Dame, Emory, Washu, UCB, Georgetown
5. Umich, UCLA, CMU, USC, UCLA, UNC

Highly accurate ranking ! All five groups are prestigious; Groups 1-3 are what most people mean by "Elite".

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Anonymous wrote:I think that it is prestigious in some circles but I agree with that it doesn't have the universal name recognition of the ivies and elite publics. If I hadn't looked at the ranking before writing this post I would have thought that it was ranked similarly to BC and BU.

This is off. Vandy is top elite -- is it MIT, Uchi, HYP -- no but it is in the next tier. Rankings are all messed up now. You cannot use them for anything. There are about 40 elite schools. Yes some are more elite than others but there are about 40. BC is in there -- BU is not. Not the same kids/same results.

If I can't use rely on the rankings then how would I know that Vanderbilt is prestigious, elite or top elite. I have been told my entire life that Ivies are prestigious, that MIT and Stanford are prestigious and that UCLA, Cal and Michigan are prestigious. I have never heard much about Vanderbilt except for them being a perennial SEC football doormat.

Michigan is not prestigious. It's a humongous state school with a so-so football team.

Lol the poster whose kid got rejected from Michigan is back. The football team just won the *national championship* and kids on the east coast routinely pick Michigan over and among other top 20 schools, but whatever.

Michigan is below Georgetown and Emory in prestige.
It's
1.HYPSM
2.Columbia, Duke, Upenn, Caltech, UChicago
3.Dartmouth, Brown, Cornell, Northwestern, Johns Hopkins
4.Vandy, Rice, Notre Dame, Emory, Washu, UCB, Georgetown
5. Umich, UCLA, CMU, USC, UCLA, UNC

Highly accurate ranking ! All five groups are prestigious; Groups 1-3 are what most people mean by "Elite".

Is Vandy “easier” than schools in groups 1-3? Easier grading etc?

[Anonymous]

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Is Vandy “easier” than schools in groups 1-3? Easier grading etc?

Definitely not. In fact, it’s known to have grade deflation, especially in relationship to the lower ivies.

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Anonymous wrote:I think that it is prestigious in some circles but I agree with that it doesn't have the universal name recognition of the ivies and elite publics. If I hadn't looked at the ranking before writing this post I would have thought that it was ranked similarly to BC and BU.

This is off. Vandy is top elite -- is it MIT, Uchi, HYP -- no but it is in the next tier. Rankings are all messed up now. You cannot use them for anything. There are about 40 elite schools. Yes some are more elite than others but there are about 40. BC is in there -- BU is not. Not the same kids/same results.

Maybe not in old Grammy’s mind, but BU is about the same these days.
It likely has a more diverse group of kids and a wider spectrum compared to BC, but many elite Boston-bound kids these days split between these schools based on their preferences.

I don't think so. The kids are not the same. I really doubt much overlap. Tufts would get the nod over BU. Likely more diverse but so what?

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Anonymous wrote:I think that it is prestigious in some circles but I agree with that it doesn't have the universal name recognition of the ivies and elite publics. If I hadn't looked at the ranking before writing this post I would have thought that it was ranked similarly to BC and BU.

This is off. Vandy is top elite -- is it MIT, Uchi, HYP -- no but it is in the next tier. Rankings are all messed up now. You cannot use them for anything. There are about 40 elite schools. Yes some are more elite than others but there are about 40. BC is in there -- BU is not. Not the same kids/same results.

If I can't use rely on the rankings then how would I know that Vanderbilt is prestigious, elite or top elite. I have been told my entire life that Ivies are prestigious, that MIT and Stanford are prestigious and that UCLA, Cal and Michigan are prestigious. I have never heard much about Vanderbilt except for them being a perennial SEC football doormat.

Michigan is not prestigious. It's a humongous state school with a so-so football team.

Lol the poster whose kid got rejected from Michigan is back. The football team just won the *national championship* and kids on the east coast routinely pick Michigan over and among other top 20 schools, but whatever.

Michigan is below Georgetown and Emory in prestige.
It's
1.HYPSM
2.Columbia, Duke, Upenn, Caltech, UChicago
3.Dartmouth, Brown, Cornell, Northwestern, Johns Hopkins
4.Vandy, Rice, Notre Dame, Emory, Washu, UCB, Georgetown
5. Umich, UCLA, CMU, USC, UCLA, UNC

Highly accurate ranking ! All five groups are prestigious; Groups 1-3 are what most people mean by "Elite".

Which schools in group 4 can move to group 3?

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Anonymous wrote:I think that it is prestigious in some circles but I agree with that it doesn't have the universal name recognition of the ivies and elite publics. If I hadn't looked at the ranking before writing this post I would have thought that it was ranked similarly to BC and BU.

This is off. Vandy is top elite -- is it MIT, Uchi, HYP -- no but it is in the next tier. Rankings are all messed up now. You cannot use them for anything. There are about 40 elite schools. Yes some are more elite than others but there are about 40. BC is in there -- BU is not. Not the same kids/same results.

If I can't use rely on the rankings then how would I know that Vanderbilt is prestigious, elite or top elite. I have been told my entire life that Ivies are prestigious, that MIT and Stanford are prestigious and that UCLA, Cal and Michigan are prestigious. I have never heard much about Vanderbilt except for them being a perennial SEC football doormat.

Michigan is not prestigious. It's a humongous state school with a so-so football team.

Lol the poster whose kid got rejected from Michigan is back. The football team just won the *national championship* and kids on the east coast routinely pick Michigan over and among other top 20 schools, but whatever.

Michigan is below Georgetown and Emory in prestige.
It's
1.HYPSM
2.Columbia, Duke, Upenn, Caltech, UChicago
3.Dartmouth, Brown, Cornell, Northwestern, Johns Hopkins
4.Vandy, Rice, Notre Dame, Emory, Washu, UCB, Georgetown
5. Umich, UCLA, CMU, USC, UCLA, UNC

Highly accurate ranking ! All five groups are prestigious; Groups 1-3 are what most people mean by "Elite".

Which schools in group 4 can move to group 3?

I think Vandy, Rice and Emory. There is the right part of the country, in big cities, and have big financial resources. Notre Dame has the money but doesn't have the location and grad school infrastructure.