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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I also don't understand the importance of international reputation.

This thread has "USN rankings" in the headline.  NYU is ranked #30 out of 3,000 or so.  I am not gifted in the maths, but doesn't that put it in the top 1%?

Someone needs to define what percent is "elite".  If that number is 0.25%, then NYU is not elite.

So what is the number?[/quote]

It's the NYU boosters bragging about NYU being the bests school in the nation, in part because of their supposed international reputation and because the "newly wealthy" in Middle East and Asia are apparently just dying to attend.  :roll:  It's like orientalist but 100% more self-serving and oblivious, which is saying a lot.

I think NYU is moderately prestigious, but it does not belong in the absolute upper crust of American higher education, which most would agree is the top ~20 schools in the nation.[/quote]
Here we go again with the "Top 20" schools, unless that list includes the top SLACs.

Vanderbilt and Washington University have more common with Wake Forest and Case Western Reserve than with Harvard or MIT.

The true absolute upper crust of higher education is HYPSM, Caltech, perhaps Columbia and Penn recently. Yale is becoming questionable.

Chicago, Duke, Hopkins and Northwestern boosters will continue to somehow include those universities in the list. Doing so is going far down past the crust. [/quote]

What school did you attend?[/quote]

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