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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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.

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

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The median person in this country has never heard of MIT or Princeton. They have heard of Ohio State and Alabama. [/quote]
Who's talking about "heard of"? Where in the post does it say "heard of"?

It quite explicitly states that the vast swathes o the population views the school as [b]elite[/b]. "Heard of" is not the same thing as "elite". No one views University of Alabama or Ohio State as elite, other than in football.

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Exactly. "Prestigious" doesn't mean "good football team". 
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Again, who is talking about football teams? We are talking about elite academically, not good football teams.

Every Joe in Boston thinks that Hahvahd kids are wicked smaht. Every Joe has heard of the Ivies, even if they don't know some of the smaller schools in it.

The post does not reference football teams in any way. [/quote]

[i]"I'd define "prestigious" as a school that has for a long time viewed as elite not just by the wealthy/well-educated, [u]but also by the vast swathes of the population[/u]."
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I hate to break it to you, but the vast swathes of the population don't define "prestigious" the same way you do. 
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Read the post again. Then double-back and read it again.

It states a prestigious school is viewed as [b]elite[/b] by vast swathes of the population. Viewed as [b]elite[/b], not viewed as [b]prestigious[/b], which would be circular definition to define prestigious by using the term prestigious.

Vast swathes of the population do know what elite means. They hear about it in the news every time a presidential candidate runs for office, how that candidate attended Harvard, Yale or some other Ivy League school. [b]They hear about it during Supreme Court nominations about how the judge attended[/b], again, Yale, Harvard, etc. law school. They hear about it when some wealthy tech CEO dropped out of Stanford or Harvard to start their own tech company. Or even when Trump brags about himself having "good genes" because his uncle was a professor at MIT.

An elite school literally means the school has been attended by the American elite - in political elites, industrial elites, etc.

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LOL. You are very much out of touch with the vast swathes. Recent Trump drama aside, most of them couldn’t even name a Supreme Court justice. That’s just not the news they follow. 
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/403992-poll-more-than-half-of-americans-cant-name-single-supreme-court
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