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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“If anyone thinks Dartmouth, Brown and Cornell are more prestigious than UChicago, Northwestern or Duke, I'm going to assume they're a 16-year-old, a desperate Karen, or an alumnus/a of one of those schools. If anyone thinks UVA is more prestigious than Berkeley or Michigan, I'm going to assume they're either a Virginian who's never left the state or positively delusional. Or both.”

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Parents tend to obsess over minute differences in rankings and try to translate that into prestige.  I think of prestige from the perspective of someone who has hired and reviewed many applications (and prestige there doesn't seem like the right word - I'm just thinking in terms of "can the applicant get the job done and fit in?") I don't have anywhere near as many "Prestige" tiers as USNWR has in their rank order.   If I am evaluating a Berkeley grad, a UVA grad, and a Michigan grad, I'm not going to think of them that differently all other things being equal.  There are a bunch of other schools that fall into a similar category.  Sure, if is computer science, I may think the Berkeley kid may start with an extra point or so, but they would have to show it.  Also, in my field (high tech) undergrad institution doesn't seem to matter much after the first job.  It almost never seems to come up, in fact.  That may be different in finance, or law, but that's the way I've seen it for 20 years in high tech.[/quote]

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