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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Washington University[/quote]

I went to Washington University.

It's a great school, but I don't think it's nearly as well known to the general public as Notre Dame.

From the perspective of people who are into school prestige rankings, I don't think it has as much raw academic prestige as the University of Chicago. Maybe it's comparable to Northwestern. [/quote]

But to people in the midwest, it is Notre Dame and Wash U as the most prestigious schools. Wash U for academics and Notre Dame for overall experience.[/quote]
Midwesterner here. I disagree totally. I’d say Notre Dame and Northwestern. [/quote]

Different Midwesterner here. My list in order of prestige would be:

1) Chicago
2) Northwestern
3) Michigan
4) Washington University
5) University of Illinois
6) Notre Dame
7) Oberlin College
8) Carleton College
9) Grinnell College
10) Macalester College

7-10 are just different kinds of schools that are hard to complicated are with those others.

I think Purdue and Notre Dame may be great but have weak prestige PR. Of course, I've heard about them, but, until
I came here, I thought of them as football teams with schools attached. It never occurred time that kids with good grades would go there. I think of Case Western and Indiana University, for example, as being in a much higher prestige tier.

Maybe, if my lack of prestige awareness for those schools is common, they could get a lot of value from a good PR campaign.

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+1 This fits with my listing (former midwesterner) except, Grinnell and Carleton above Oberlin and Macalester.[/quote][/quote]

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