What Schools Do You Consider “Prestigious?”

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Anonymous wrote:Just being real, not state schools. Not even IC Berkeley. Of course HYPMS, but also the “lower” Ivies and also the odd private school like Northwestern and Emory and probably a few more if I really thought about it.

FWIW I have a relative who attended Emory in undergrad (now employed as a physician). She did not realize, in her forties, that Spain was not an actor in World War 2.

I’m a lawyer from an T10 law school and I didn’t know that until this post just now that I am reading at 38. Add that to your list of “people who didn’t learn a lot about WWII” I guess.

The depths of ignorance of people who attend elite institutions is always surprising to people who haven't actually met people from elite institutions.

Older video, but still my favorite:

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:HPSM (no Y)
Oxford
Cambridge
Wharton
Sciences Po
Georgetown SFS

Idiot (no Y).

DP, but what's idiotic is caring about some rando here leaving your school off a list.

You'd need a prestigious forum to craft a prestigious list, and DCUM sure as hell ain't it.

[Anonymous]

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I need to look both school and major combination.

Harvard english sound like ALDC.

What you actually study as well as the school determines prestige.

Its easy to change majors at these schools.

Let me know after you change

+1

I really wish complete idiots would stop chiming in.

DCUM should require an IQ test to post.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:HPSM (no Y)
Oxford
Cambridge
Wharton
Sciences Po
Georgetown SFS

Idiot (no Y).

To be fair, Yale doesn't meet the criteria of HPSM for a few reasons. Firstly, HPSM excel across all fields (many people don't know MIT is the best for several social sciences), while Yale noticeably lacks in STEM. Secondly, HPSM don't have any scholarship programs for accepted undergrad students because they don't need extra tools to attract kids, whereas Yale is in the same boat as Columbia, Duke, and UPenn by offering special programs to admitted students to lure them. No shame in these merit programs as they do work in convincing admitted students to enroll, but it says something that HPSM don't need them.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It is a big scam by rich white people who try hard to promote their school brands as "prestigious" after they send their ALDC kids to these schools for easy majors. Middle-class people should be aware of this. If you blindly think that "Harvard" is such a prestigious name, so you will be all set spending a ton of money, that could be a big mistake.

CMU CS, NYU Stern, GT SFS etc. are more prestigious than useless majors at those school names that keep popping up.

If it's really prestigious, it will be highly valued in society, industries, and the real world.

Harvard English: $49,675
https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/school/?166027-Harvard-University&fos_code=2301&fos_credential=3

Northwestern Psychology: $61,389
https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/school/?147767-Northwestern-University&fos_code=0999&fos_credential=3

Does it look prestigious? They are simply not.
Now

CMU Elect Engineering: $$149,740
https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/school/?211440-Carnegie-Mellon-University&fos_code=1107&fos_credential=3

Northeastern CS: $132,227
https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/school/?167358-Northeastern-University

Boston College Finance: $110,242
https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/school/?164924-Boston-College&fos_code=5208&fos_credential=3

These seem more serious and prestigious.
If someone throws out some school names and tries to convince you that they are prestigious, it is likely a rich white person with an ALDC kid trying to scam you. Watch Out.

All that says to me is that Harvard english majors go into academia

This is 10-year-out from beginning of college.
What does it tell you?

If you are middle class, whatever you do, be prepared to make shit after 6 years from graduation.

What do you think academics make 10 years out? Most will be post docs

Dr of English education sounds meh
doesn't sound prestigious

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Just being real, not state schools. Not even IC Berkeley. Of course HYPMS, but also the “lower” Ivies and also the odd private school like Northwestern and Emory and probably a few more if I really thought about it.

FWIW I have a relative who attended Emory in undergrad (now employed as a physician). She did not realize, in her forties, that Spain was not an actor in World War 2.

I’m a lawyer from an T10 law school and I didn’t know that until this post just now that I am reading at 38. Add that to your list of “people who didn’t learn a lot about WWII” I guess.

The depths of ignorance of people who attend elite institutions is always surprising to people who haven't actually met people from elite institutions.

Older video, but still my favorite:
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I'll add that this is not a criticism of you, who has the humility to acknowledge learning something. It's just that general education was pretty bad when you were in school, and it's even worse now. Elite schools don't admit huge numbers of autodidacts -- the most likely to come up with these bits of knowledge -- probably because autodidacts, while generally very smart, often cross the line into ADHD, which means they don't have the perfect resumes that elite schools crave.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I consider below “elite”:

Harvard
Stanford
MIT
Yale
Princeton
Caltech
Penn
Chicago
Duke
Northwestern
Dartmouth
Brown
Cornell
Johns Hopkins

+ Columbia

Thanks, Obama

[Anonymous]

I would add Notre Dame to these lists.

I don't really care if that makes me a "DCUM idiot", also not an alumni.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If you are adding Julliard, then you may as well also add Berkelee School of Music in Boston.

Berkelee has like 50% acceptance rate

Anonymous wrote:I actually think of art/design/music/performance colleges when I think of prestigious places. Places like RISD, Juilliard, Tisch, etc.

RISD has like 30% acceptance rate.
Other art programs like CMU Design has 7%, Yale art 5%, USC SCA 3% acceptance rate.
They require both artistic talent and brain (academic achievement) to get in.

Berkelee et al could easily reduce their acceptance rates by encouraging the merely talented (or hopeless) to apply. See the glowing marketing materials Harvard sent to people with 1200 SATs.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If you are adding Julliard, then you may as well also add Berkelee School of Music in Boston.

Berkelee has like 50% acceptance rate

Anonymous wrote:I actually think of art/design/music/performance colleges when I think of prestigious places. Places like RISD, Juilliard, Tisch, etc.

RISD has like 30% acceptance rate.
Other art programs like CMU Design has 7%, Yale art 5%, USC SCA 3% acceptance rate.
They require both artistic talent and brain (academic achievement) to get in.

Berkelee et al could easily reduce their acceptance rates by encouraging the merely talented (or hopeless) to apply. See the glowing marketing materials Harvard sent to people with 1200 SATs.

First, it is Berkeley not Berkelee,

Second, see below for acceptance rates:

UC Berkeley Regular Decisions Acceptance Statistics
Reporting Year Applicants Acceptance Rate
2022-23 128,226 11.4%
2021-22 112,846 14.5%

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I guess any school with less than 10% acceptance rate, more than $50K tuition and more than $5 billion endowment should meet your "prestigious" standard.

This^.

[Anonymous]

If we're talking schools that make me think "wow!":

Harvard
Princeton
Stanford
MIT
Caltech
UPenn
Duke
Columbia
Yale

There are lots of other specific schools and programs that also come across as pretty impressive, but this is the list where I feel if someone just mentions the school name, regardless of what they're studying it's highly impressive.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If you are adding Julliard, then you may as well also add Berkelee School of Music in Boston.

Berkelee has like 50% acceptance rate

Anonymous wrote:I actually think of art/design/music/performance colleges when I think of prestigious places. Places like RISD, Juilliard, Tisch, etc.

RISD has like 30% acceptance rate.
Other art programs like CMU Design has 7%, Yale art 5%, USC SCA 3% acceptance rate.
They require both artistic talent and brain (academic achievement) to get in.

Berkelee et al could easily reduce their acceptance rates by encouraging the merely talented (or hopeless) to apply. See the glowing marketing materials Harvard sent to people with 1200 SATs.

First, it is Berkeley not Berkelee,

Second, see below for acceptance rates:

UC Berkeley Regular Decisions Acceptance Statistics
Reporting Year Applicants Acceptance Rate
2022-23 128,226 11.4%
2021-22 112,846 14.5%

Actually - it's not Berkeley (they are not talking about the UC school) and it's not Berkelee either. It's Berklee College of Music

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you are adding Julliard, then you may as well also add Berkelee School of Music in Boston.

Berkelee has like 50% acceptance rate

Anonymous wrote:I actually think of art/design/music/performance colleges when I think of prestigious places. Places like RISD, Juilliard, Tisch, etc.

RISD has like 30% acceptance rate.
Other art programs like CMU Design has 7%, Yale art 5%, USC SCA 3% acceptance rate.
They require both artistic talent and brain (academic achievement) to get in.

Berkelee et al could easily reduce their acceptance rates by encouraging the merely talented (or hopeless) to apply. See the glowing marketing materials Harvard sent to people with 1200 SATs.

Agreed - the most likely reason Berklee has a high acceptance rate is that it is already a self selected group of highly talented musicians who are willing to pay big bucks for a Berklee degree.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Minerva has a 2% acceptance rate

never heard of it

Right, it has a low acceptance rate but no one has ever heard of it. Does that make it prestigious?