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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Ivies, MIT, and Stanford are generally accepted as "prestigious."

After that, it's coming up with a longer list that gives a poster just enough cover to include their own school.

Keep in mind that "prestigious" is not the same as "good," "respected," or "competitive."  It has a different connotation, yet one that posters here seem endlessly ready to fight over.  [/quote]

Even within Ivies, it's more restricted to HYP and maybe Wharton

A noncontroversial definition would be to just include HYPSM and Caltech

A broader elite college definition I think would include the consensus T15 schools (Ivies, MIT, Stanford, Caltech, Duke, Northwestern, Chicago, JHU)[/quote]

Almost everyone's list has MIT, Harvard, Princeton, and Stanford, so there's the answer. I'm inclined to add Yale and Caltech, but as a scientist/engineer who went to MIT, I'm biased on Caltech. As a MIT alum, generally when it came to prestige, we only include Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, Yale, and Caltech on par with us. Same as the Harvard kids/alum (but minus Caltech). Duke, Northwestern, JHU? Um no. Go internationally, and HPYSM are the schools that are viewed as prestigious. Chicago, no. But I have a lot of respect for Chicago alums because it is a hard school too.

Someone earlier up also discussed how MIT was good all around academically, including in social sciences. I wound up taking enough security studies classes to get a double major in it. I ended up taking a class at Harvard and most of the readings were from MIT professors.[/quote]

MIT carries a ton a weight in Asia, especially India, but I was surprised that it isn't on that Harvard, Yale, and Stanford shortlist with everyone in Europe. The name recognition wasn't the same. 
Even among everyday people in the US (mostly not on DCUM), there are those few names that everyone knows. 
With graduate school admissions or first jobs at high-end companies, you're in good shape coming from these T15 schools but the prestige that everyone recognizes is just a few schools.[/quote]

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