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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Another Midwesterner here. I’d say Northwestern, Notre Dame, Chicago, WashU and maybe Michigan. [b]Grinnell, Mac, Carleton, and Oberlin are good but much niche.  [/b]

When I was in high school (affluent suburb of Chicago - Glenbrook North - graduated in 1988) Washington University really wasn’t mentioned alongside Northwestern/ND/etc. But it’s definitely gotten really good since then. And UChicago was a place for really quirky, weird kids. Like, you didn’t apply there if you were remotely conventional. Seems like it still has pockets of that vibe today but also attracts far more of your typical UMC Ivy League gunner types.

Northwestern and Notre Dame were very strong then and still are. [/quote]

I agree.

Grinnell, oberlin  etc are not considered prestigious by people in the midwest.[/quote]

You can't compare SLACs with national universities.  They are different schools.  Outside their immediate area, the general population has no idea what Williams, Pomona, Swarthmore, Amherst, Vassar, Oberlin are...  They may know what the Kardashians had for breakfast, lunch, dinner all last week; they may know Harvard and Yale; they may know Prince William and Prince Harry, but they wouldn't know Williams, Vassar... [/quote]

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