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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can accept every list being proposed on this thread with the exception of those that include Cornell [/quote]

Cornell CS, Engineering, Business(Dyson) are very prestigious.
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all very good programs, and Cornell is a great school - but agree not the tippy top kids.  Think T15 in US News is cutoff in my circle for prestige [/quote]
WashU and Rice are better than Cornell? [/quote]

yes [/quote]

We’re talking prestige here. Rice is hardly a household name. Same with Washington U.  Sorry. [/quote]

Prestige is a silly metric but I think most schools have stronger regional than national reputations, which I don’t intend as a slight in anyway.  The ones that transcend regional familiarity and wow equally everywhere are (IMO) all or at least most Ivies, Stanford, Chicago, and MIT.  Possibly Duke.  Honestly I think that’s it.

I went to a state school personally.
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In terms of familiarity, the vast majority of people don't know UChicago and think it's a state school, or even specifically University of Illinois Chicago (UIC). Most people also have no clue about Dartmouth or Cornell, maybe not Brown either. I'd say the academically uber elite schools that also have wide national recognition are: Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Princeton, Wharton (UPenn often confused for Penn State), Duke, Yale, Caltech (for people who are in STEM/have watched Big Bang Theory), and Columbia. I really think that's it.[/quote]

I don’t disagree wildly but I’d stand by Chicago, especially above Caltech.  I’m from Virginia and have virtually no familiarity and thought that was a state school until recently, lol.  (Maybe because of VT?)  I think Penn is more well known than Wharton specifically but I get the Penn State mixup.  I agree not everyone can name the whole Ivy League.[/quote]

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