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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]West Point
Annapolis
Nearly any of the other service academies

No offense but these folks have multiple talents to include athleticism, leadership and spatial, community service.

You are going to enter the last true meritocracy in America.

All of the others can be bought.[/quote]

I’m sorry, but overall the kids at the service academies are academically blown out of the water by most kids at T10 schools. And many of those kids will just work out/participate in intramural or club sports on their own. People who are going to push the boundaries in math, science, etc. don’t enroll at service academies. [/quote]

NP.  Agree with the PP.  The post didn’t specify best academic institution.  It asked about most prestigious.  The service academies are absolutely equally prestigious as many school mentioned due to requiring multiple talents and mental/physical fortitude far beyond other institutions.  You can’t buy your way in and a perfect test score won’t help you either.  You need to be a far more well rounded person than just a good test taker and starting a non profit. [/quote]

+1 if the conversation is laser focused on "prestige" then West Point and Annapolis are up there. [/quote]

You military boosters are hilarious. West Point and Annapolis are akin to Notre Dame in my eyes - culty and prestigious for a certain group of people (Catholics for Notre Dame, veterans for West Point/Annapolis). No one is taking West Point or Annapolis over a T10 unless they have a deep family military history or a weirdly strong desire to join the military. The kids who feel this way and who are smart enough to get into a T10 are likely in the single digits each year. Their 75th percentile test scores don't even reach the 25th percentile test scores at T10s.[/quote]

Again, this conversation isn't about "best." It's about most prestigious. And yeah, the academies are in the mix.[/quote]

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