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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No, it's not. Perhaps within the state of VA.

I'd define "prestigious" as a school that has for a long time viewed as elite not just by the wealthy/well-educated, but also by the vast swathes of the population.

[b]Outside of Harvard, Yale, MIT, Stanford, Princeton, I don't think any top privates even would be considered prestigious nationally[/b]. Doesn't mean that they aren't prestigious regionally.

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What you think and reality, are two different things here. There are a lot of "national" schools, particularly private ones. William and Mary isn't one of them, being public and somewhat more regional. But if you don't think Columbia, Penn, Northwestern, Hopkins and so on, aren't "national" schools, I don't know what to tell you.[/quote]
I agree with Columbia and Penn (Wharton), and perhaps even Dartmouth and Brown solely based on their association with the Ivies.

I don't agree with Northwestern. Most people will have never heard of the school, and those that have would simply think its a very good private school. Certainly its prestigious in the Midwest, but that means it's prestigious regionally. People in the Mid-Atlantic, West and South generally do not care about Northwestern.

Hopkins seems prestigious because this is a DC Metro forum, and yes it is perhaps prestigious regionally (even that I question, again most people do not care for Hopkins undergrad). Beyond its top medical school which is prestigious internationally, I would not say that the rest of the school is prestigious nationally.[/quote]

Are you really trying to argue Northwestern and Hopkins aren't national schools? This is a piss poor take. I'm from Colorado and NU and JHU are both seen as prestigious schools. Even here in NOVA, they are respected names.[/quote]

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