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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Coming across the JHU thread and it’s clear there are some people unfamiliar with American colleges who think Ivy League = the best. It is worth repeating that there are just as many universities NOT in the Ivy League that are just as good and just as prestigious as the Ivies.

Stanford, MIT, Chicago, Cal Tech, JHU, Northwestern, Duke

If we expand to LACS, add Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore and Pomona.

If these schools were to just start their own separate academic “league,” they would rival the Ivy League, easily.[/quote]

No one thinks only Ivy League is the best. It's a straw man in your own head. But Ivy League is a real grouping that conveys prestige for lay people. MIT and Stanford  are also widely accepted as being in the top 5 prestigious schools in the country. [b]T5, HYPMS[/b] is a real grouping.

The rest of them are all good schools. But they are not prestigious.[/quote]

Lol, I believe USNews has Columbia ahead of Yale and Princeton.[/quote]

As the PP said, the ivy league is a real grouping. I've also heard of the "big three" when I attended college, and yes, I went to one of them. HYPMS is not a real grouping, unless you spend every minute of your life reading college confidential. I've never heard of that acronym until I start reading the forums. Calling these schools "not prestigious" is just plain idiotic and shows how shallow your knowledge is. Not even a Harvard man has the audacity to say call these schools "not prestigious." [/quote]

Exactly. Anyone claiming that schools like Duke, Northwestern and Chicago — Chicago! — are not prestigious is just embarrassing themselves. Certainly more prestigious than about half of the Ivy League.[/quote]

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