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[quote=Anonymous]People keep conflating name recognition and prestige in this thread. Name recognition for the vast majority of schools is driven by televised sports, not really very useful in determining educational quality.

Georgetown is considered elite yet nobody heard of Georgetown prior to Big East basketball.

Clemson is very well known only because of  football. It is a very good but far from elite school.

Bama is known worldwide but is merely good and has to pay to obtain top students.

Name recognition and prestige matter to insecure parents and kids worried about what their friends might think. It has little utility in the real world except maybe to start a conversation. And if that is your goal most of the public is more interested in game day at Bama than what eating club you were in at an Ivy.

All three of the schools mentioned will get excellent results where it matters, grad school admissions and careers.

For careers/employers where schools matter they might not be as strong as ‘target schools’ but they are as strong as most schools for everything else. It’s true that for IB and top consulting that you should look at the Ivy’s, top NESCAC, and a few other schools; but how many jobs are we talking about? For most everything else it’s about education not prestige. People fight about the top school for CS. That may matter for a quant job at a Fintech but SJSU is probably a better path into a FAANG.

For the OP the answer is “all three are excellenot, pick the one which makes your child the happiest”.[/quote]

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