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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Elite:

Harvard
Stanford
Yale 
MIT
Princeton
Columbia
(Wharton)[/quote]

I’m ok with this, but take out Columbia[/quote]

Agree Columbia is out[/quote]

There is a research article about how employers of elite firms view these schools, titled “Ivies, Extracurriculars, and Exclusion: Elite Employers' Use of Educational Credentials,” by Professor Lauren Rivera of Northwestern University.

Here’s a quote from the study:"Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth, and University of Pennsylvania (Arts and Sciences) were frequently described as 'second tier' schools that were filled primarily with candidates who 'didn’t get in' to a super-elite school."

In other words, employers from elite investment banks and such generally group both Columbia and Wharton with HYP instead of the rest of the ivies. I think it’s fair to say that both Columbia and Wharton are elite.[/quote]

No in most finance circles, [b]Wharton is a step above Columbia[/b]
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Wharton is 3 steps above Columbia!
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No one gives an F about Wharton except the people who went there. And certainly no one cares about UPenn.[/quote]

Certainly more so than Columbia though[/quote]

The vast majority of people in this country and in the world think UPenn is the state flagship of the state of Pennsylvania. The people who do know only learn about the school midway through high school when they Google which colleges are in the Ivy League and realize that UPenn is one. Absolutely no one thinks of it more highly than Columbia, which has a doubled cachet being the NYC Ivy, is higher ranked, more prestigious, and more selective.[/quote]

I think ppl consider Penn more prestigious [/quote]

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