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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It can't all be about how hard it is to get in....so what makes these top universities stand out? 
Better professors or is it just great marketing attracting $$$ and therefore everyone wants to be associated with the prestige.
in other words, is a doctor, stock broker, journalist, engineer from Harvard better than one from University of MD?

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Part of it is obviously about the nature of the faculty and the students. There are going to be a lot more famous, high-powered people in any given room at Harvard than at your local Jesuit college.

But a lot of it is about history, inertia and marketing. Some state universities are actually higher-ranked than Harvard in some fields in terms of research, but Harvard is Harvard. It simply has more built-in name recognition than Ohio State. Graduates of top programs at Ohio State may be just as smart and well-prepared as graduates of a comparable program at Harvard, but even people like me who understand that Ohio State is better at some things than Harvard may have a gut reaction to the mention of Harvard that we wouldn’t have to a mention of Ohio State. My brain gets nuance; my gut is pretty simple-minded. [/quote]

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