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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]FWIW I chose to attend one of the schools on OP’s list (not MIT or Stanford) over two Ivies, Dartmouth and Penn, and knew more than just several at my alma mater who had chosen similarly.

The Ivies derive their prestige from their association with Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. All of the other top schools outside of HYP are peer institutions and generally equal in prestige. As others have noted, Stanford and MIT easily match HYP.[/quote]

THANK YOU!! Cornell or Brown are not more prestigious than say Georgetown. It's HYPSM then the other top 25 schools. Then the rest. [/quote]

Georgetown is a questionable choice to make your point.  I don't view Georgetown as that prestigious and its prestige (even if not equal to Cornell or Brown) outstrips its current quality given tremendous budget issues and an endowment that is dwarfed by most schools it likes to consider as peers.[/quote]

That doesn’t mean it can’t be the best choice for some kids.

I got into Georgetown SFS early and, even though I was competitive for Ivies, did not apply to any. Why? Because I wanted a career in the USG. No school is better for that than SFS. I went there, graduated in the top 9% of my class, and developed connections that got me my dream job, which I still have and love.

My point is that schools you might not consider prestigious can provide the perfect path for certain people. [/quote]

Oh and I’ll add: at my fed agency—which is extremely competitive to get hired at—we have a ton of people from Georgetown, many from Michigan and Northwestern, and a handful from HYP. After that it’s universities you’d all look down your nose at. I don’t know a single person there who went to Cornell or Brown. [/quote]

If you acknowledge that your agency is filled mostly with people who went to not particularly prestigious schools, I'm not sure why the supposed lack of people from Cornell or Brown would serve as an indictment of those schools.[/quote]

And if you think Georgetown, Northwestern and Michigan are prestigious, I don't know what to tell you. That is more a negative reflection of you.[/quote]

*aren't* prestigious, typo[/quote]

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