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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All the non-Ivies ranked 10-20 on US News are pretty overrated e.g. Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Georgetown, WashU, Hopkins. Nobody really cares about those schools. They're fine but nothing to obsess over and they churn out plenty of "meh" undergrads every year. It's not like Northwestern or Emory are lottery tickets, but that's how some lunatic tiger moms act.[/quote]

This is very much true, which makes it confusing as to why so many are obsessed with these schools based on their top 20-ish ranking.

These privates are pretty much regionally prestigious at most. In the upper Midwest, Northwestern is somewhat prestigious perhaps. Outside, not many people care about it. Frankly, I feel the same way about U. Chicago, which gets a lot of undue cachet due to its recent association with Obama - who was a [b]lecturer, not a professor[/b].

In the lower midwest, perhaps Washington University is somewhat prestigious. Maryland for Hopkins. South/Appalachia for Vanderbilt, perhaps. Ironically Georgetown may be the most "prestigious throughout the mid-Atlantic/Northeast due to its association as a school for prep school kids who couldn't get into the Ivies.

This regional prestige is also true for Ivies like Dartmouth and Brown, but their reputation as Ivies does carry some cachet throughout the country/world, even if unjustifiably so

These universities may have some fields that are very well known nationwide/worldwide [b]within those in the know about the field such as academics[/b] i.e. pre-med at Hopkins, international relations and investment banking/consulting recruiting at Georgetown, Economics at U. Chicago, investment banking at Dartmouth, etc. etc. [/quote]

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