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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think that it is prestigious in some circles but I agree with that it doesn't have the universal name recognition of the ivies and elite publics. If I hadn't looked at the ranking before writing this post I would have thought that it was ranked similarly to BC and BU.[/quote]

This is off.  Vandy is top elite -- is it MIT, Uchi, HYP -- no but it is in the next tier.  Rankings are all messed up now.  You cannot use them for anything.  There are about 40 elite schools.  Yes some are more elite than others but there are about 40.  BC is in there -- BU is not.  Not the same kids/same results.[/quote]

If I can't use rely on the rankings then how would I know that Vanderbilt is prestigious, elite or top elite.  I have been told my entire life that Ivies are prestigious, that MIT and Stanford are prestigious and that UCLA, Cal and Michigan are prestigious.  I have never heard much about Vanderbilt except for them being a perennial SEC football doormat.  [/quote]

Michigan is not prestigious. It's a humongous state school with a so-so football team.[/quote]

Lol the poster whose kid got rejected from Michigan is back. The football team just won the *national championship* and kids on the east coast routinely pick Michigan over and among other top 20 schools, but whatever.[/quote]
Michigan is below Georgetown and Emory in prestige. 
It's 
1.HYPSM
2.Columbia, Duke, Upenn, Caltech, UChicago
3.Dartmouth, Brown, Cornell, Northwestern, Johns Hopkins 
4.Vandy, Rice, Notre Dame, Emory, Washu, UCB, Georgetown 
5. Umich, UCLA, CMU, USC, UCLA, UNC

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More like...
1.HYPSM
2a.Columbia, Upenn, Caltech, UChicago
2b. Duke, Brown, Johns Hopkins 
3a.Dartmouth, Northwestern
3b. Cornell, Vandy, Rice
4a. Notre Dame, Emory, Washu, UCB, Georgetown 
4b. Umich, UCLA, CMU, UCLA
5. UNC, USC

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The issue with the "prestige" question is that it often hinges on name recognition. Schools like Rice, Washington University, Emory, Vanderbilt, and CMU, while excellent, aren't as widely recognized, so they may not immediately impress people as prestigious due to limited public awareness. In contrast, Ivy League schools have established brands that inherently carry prestige, even for institutions like Brown. Additionally, many on the East Coast may not fully appreciate how highly regarded California public universities are. Is Rice or Emory truly more prestigious than Cal, UCLA, or UCSD? Some of these schools gain perceived prestige within certain communities, like the DCUM echo chamber, because they become the fallback options when students don’t get into an Ivy. Parents then feel compelled to highlight the strengths of the school their child ultimately attends.[/quote]

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