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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Obviously a troll post, as any serious analysis of this question would of course begin with Bucknell at the top of the prestige list.

Also, there is simply no way a couple with 4 Ivy League degrees between them would not have long since already formed strong opinions on this matter.

Fee, fi, fo, fum I smell the blood of state school strivers on D-C-U-M![/quote]

DP.

My wife and I are also double barreled Ivy and the while we have friends that went to SLACs, we know very little about them.
We are both the children of immigrants if you wanted a reason for our ignorance.
Neither of us have noticed an perceivable advantage of one over SLAC over the other and when it comes to global recognition... quantity has a quality all its own.
Places like Cornell have outsized international reputation because they have so many graduates that have convinced the rest of the world that Cornell is the "STEM Ivy"
Harvard law has a much better reputation than either Yale or Stanford because there are once again, so many graduates around the world telling everyone how good it is.[/quote]
OK, but do you think America cares what the rest of the world thinks? It has the luxury of not having to. Do you think UK citizens care what the rest of the world thinks about its unis? Any deviation from what they think is characterized as ignorance.

Do you realize that Yale is considered the top law school by those in the know? True prestige, for better or worse, is what people from that country think is the most prestigious. The rest is ignorance.[/quote]

Yes, I think highly qualified americans care about international reputation these days.  
I think brits care about their international reputation of their schools.  The brits have always cared about their international footprint.
For example a lot of people, including many people on this board have been thinking about sending their high stat kids to oxbridge, it's a thing now.

I am well aware of yale's reputation and frankly it's not what it used to be. I don't think picking yale over harvard is as automatic as you might think.[/quote]
Well, since this is a liberal arts thread, no, highly educated Americans know where top SLACs stand, and have no concern whatsoever about the inflated ranking of the Manchesters of the world.

As for Brits, we have seen it many times on this site: they tell us St. Andrew’s is not comparable to Oxbridge, and on and on. Prestige does not come from outsiders, but from insiders.

But go Cornell!

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