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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Prestige is always going to be subjective and ever-changing. All of the top 20 schools are prestigious, and people parsing and dismissing the various schools are being ridiculous. Vanderbilt is an excellent school and has been for a long time. But we all bring biases. Some people hate the South. Some people formed their opinions in the 1970s. And so on.

My own personal biases are anti-Ivy League. I think quite a few of them are resting on reputations made decades - if not centuries - ago. And these days there's a strong cohort of non-Ivies that have real energy and attract a lot of talent - Vanderbilt, Duke, Northwestern, Rice, Chicago, and Johns Hopkins. And anyone suggesting that these schools aren't as prestigious as Cornell, Dartmouth, Brown, Penn, or Columbia is being disingenuous or is really out of touch. Ask your children which group is more desirable these days. [/quote]

Your school sets are actually kind of strange.

I asked my kid and it's the usual suspects...Ivy schools, Stanford + Duke and yes Vanderbilt.  If my kid was tech-focused, I am sure MIT and Caltech would be in there...but they are not.

The others don't really register much...Hopkins doesn't even remotely enter the conversation.

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