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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So, if colleges ranked 10 to 20 are overrated, with what would you replace them?  You know, there are these things called cardinal numbers.  If you can't think of any to replace them, how could they possibly be overrated?[/quote]
Most college from 20-40 could replace them easily. Carnegie Mellon for example is considered a far more rigorous university by those in the know than Vanderbilt, Washington University, Northwestern, etc. and has the same amount of prestige in general and far more prestige in engineering.

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Most college?   :roll:

So you are saying that a majority of colleges ranked 20 to 40 are better than those ranked 10 to 20?  OK, name 11.

Words have meaning.

(Not that I care.  I am just pointing out typical DCUM idiocy.)[/quote]
Where did I say better? I said replaceable.

In no particular order: CMU, Georgia Tech, Berkeley, Tufts, Michigan, UCLA, UC San Diego, UNC, UVA, Case Western, Boston College. Even NYU, USC, Boston University and multiple other UC's such as Davis, Irvine and Santa Barbara could be on that list, as well as schools well outside of the top 40 such as Pepperdine and a whole host of publics.

The point of course isn't that only the top 10-20 in essence could be replaced - Northwestern is within the top 10 and I think that could easily be replaced as well. [b]The point is the prestige drop off after Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Yale, Princeton, Caltech is massive. Colleges Columbia,[/b] Penn, Cornell, Dartmouth, Brown have cachet due to being in the Ivies, and Duke/Georgetown have cachet for being schools where prep school kids go to have being rejected by the Ivies.

In general, these colleges, and especially the last 4:

U. Chicago (6), Northwestern (9), Hopkins (10), Notre Dame (15, lol), Vanderbilt (15), Rice (17), Washington University (19)

are not all that impressive to the general population throughout the country. No one cares if you went to Hopkins outside of the DMV area, unless its Hopkins medical school. And literally no one cares about Notre Dame unless its about football rivalries. [/quote]

Hey Dumpy, do you know where “ivies” as in “Ivy League” came from?  It’s short for “IV,” roman numeral 4. IV League. Ergo, Ivy League refers to the original 4 league members - Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Columbia. The list doesn’t include CalTech. That’s a regional tech institute Californians often confuse with Cal Poly. [/quote]

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