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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] I have no relationship to WashU but with anyone with familiarity with colleges, it is regarded as a top school filled with bright students. For people unfamilar with colleges, or over ..say 60 years old on either coast ... they may be unware of the school almost completely.[/quote]

In terms of prestige, a comparison could be made to a top SLAC. Many uninformed people are clueless when it comes to Williams, Amherst etc but that doesn’t mean they are not prestigious. [/quote]
You must be the peers & ties dude and it kills you to see anyone not idolize wash. So you come back with a comparison that matters to absolutely no one. Consensus of this thread is that wash prestige is a big step down from the Cornell, Dartmouth and Brown. A good school for smart kids still. [/quote]

NP - you seem to have a fixed mindset. Are you the same poster who keeps posting over and over “STL is gross”? I don’t attend but I believe its prestige (which you seem to so slavishly care about) is on par with the non HYP Ivies.[/quote]
Aww, you're confused. I don't care about prestige at all and I never commented on St Louis. But I do find the wash/cmu tie ranking interesting and suspect both are good for smart kids and similar gritty down-to-earth metropolitan areas.[/quote]

Too much seems to be made of St. Louis. The school is adjacent to St Louis in the fancier area but is kind of a bubble. There is nothing gritty at all about the WashU campus. Might be one of the most pristine, manicured college environments I have ever seen. [/quote]
 wash tries so hard to include St Louis in its name and experience - presumably to give it a distinguishing feature or some gravitas? and if it's not at least near the benefits of a city, then what's left?[/quote]

It’s clear you’ve no idea what you’re talking about, which is a bright spotlight on why your views should be ignored. Should JHU, UChicago, etc. all be rejected?[/quote]
How does JHU bend over backwards to include a nearby city in the college name?
UChicago fully embraces the city. Zero gripe with those or many many others with city names. wash is completely different from those as pointed out.
You can crush on your beloved wash (where you said you didn't attend) all you want but it makes you look pathetically try hard.[/quote]

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