What Schools Do You Consider “Prestigious?”

[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%

False. The PP was referring to the Berklee School of Music

[Anonymous]

I can accept every list being proposed on this thread with the exception of those that include Cornell

[Anonymous]

None in America because it is not a meritocracy.

Perhaps MIT.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
None in America because it is not a meritocracy.

Perhaps MIT.

What does merit have to do with prestige?
Anyway, likely more correct to say not exclusively a meritocracy on exclusively the criteria you deem having merit. The vast majority of kids who attend prestigious schools are extremely high achieving.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

+1 I agree with this, except I’m not sure what the impact of Columbia’s scandal will be on them going forward.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can accept every list being proposed on this thread with the exception of those that include Cornell

Cornell CS, Engineering, Business(Dyson) are very prestigious.
Hotel Management NO

[Anonymous]

DCUM netizens don't value CA schools at all. Interesting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DCUM netizens don't value CA schools at all. Interesting.

One of the PPs included Stanford and Caltech though?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Harvard
Princeton
Yale
Hopkins
Annapolis
West Point
MIT
Stanford

These are the institutions most important to the United States.

+1 well thought out. Each has its purpose.

[Anonymous]

Berkeley only accept 9% oos?

[Anonymous]

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.

You are trying to apply the word prestigious in place of lucrative. They are two different things.

[Anonymous]

Many branded school are not terribly prestiguous for the undergrad, particular for STEM.

Grad on other hand has more prestige.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Berkeley only accept 9% oos?

The acceptance rate for out-of-state applicants to the University of California, Berkeley is 8.6%.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

You are trying to apply the word prestigious in place of lucrative. They are two different things.

When the society, industry, real word treat it like dirt, it's not prestigious.
It's called a scam or fantasy at the best.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

You are trying to apply the word prestigious in place of lucrative. They are two different things.

When the society, industry, real word treat it like dirt, it's not prestigious.
It's called a scam or fantasy at the best.

Sure, Harvard grads are treated like dirt. How about compare major to major?