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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The full title of this thread:

"What are the top 10 universities in the USA from the perspective of people who are insecure and focused on "status"?[/quote]

On the one hand: absolutely. This is like pinning numbers on ants and betting which ant gets to the sugar first.

On the other hand: in the real world, donut hole families might ask themselves, “What schools are so great that I’d consider taking out huge loans to send my kid there, even if my kid would get merit aid at UVA or UMD?”

For me, doing that would only make sense for kids who were so bright that their intelligence was a kind of handicap. For me, the “sell a kidney” college list for kids like that would include Cal Tech, MIT, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Harvey Mudd, Berkeley and the University of Chicago, and I’d want to look at Cornell, Pomona and Amherst to see what they had to offer.

The goal wouldn’t be to seek prestige. The goal would be for the kids to spend a few years in regular contact with intellectual peers. [/quote]

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