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

[Anonymous]

+1 for Chicago (both the College and grad. programs), but Carleton is an especially excellent LAC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

Carleton??

Dumbass?

An excellent response!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Chicago

How is a college few have heard of and even fewer dream about attending for undergrad peak prestige?

1a) Notre Dame
1b) Northwestern & Michigan

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Chicago

How is a college few have heard of and even fewer dream about attending for undergrad peak prestige?

1a) Notre Dame
1b) Northwestern & Michigan

Number of applications, 2018:

Notre Dame: 20,371
Northwestern: 40,418
UChicago: 27,693
University of Michigan: 65,684

[Anonymous]

University of Chicago and then Washington University in St. Louis.

Northwestern isn't anything special.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Chicago

How is a college few have heard of and even fewer dream about attending for undergrad peak prestige?

1a) Notre Dame
1b) Northwestern & Michigan

Chicago is ranked #3. Please stop making the Midwest look like it is full of rubes.

[Anonymous]

University of Chicago. No question.

[Anonymous]

U. Chicago is a weirdly divisive subject. I don’t get it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Chicago for sure.

Oberlin for small liberal arts undergrad.

Definitely not Oberlin. Carleton and Grinnell (in that order).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:U. Chicago is a weirdly divisive subject. I don’t get it.

Because the manufactured hype for it only exists on Internet forums. Nobody in real gives a sh— about that school.

[Anonymous]

Chicago, Wash U, Northwestern and Notre Dame are all prestigious.

[Anonymous]

Midwest University.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Chicago, Wash U, Northwestern and Notre Dame are all prestigious.

Way to sneak Wash U in there. Well played.

[Anonymous]

Wisconsin-Madison.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:U. Chicago is a weirdly divisive subject. I don’t get it.

Because the manufactured hype for it only exists on Internet forums. Nobody in real gives a sh— about that school.

You mean other than the nearly 30,000 kids who apply?