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[quote=Anonymous][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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Highly accurate ranking ! All five groups are prestigious; Groups 1-3 are what most people mean by "Elite".
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Is Vandy “easier”  than schools in groups 1-3? Easier grading etc?[/quote]

Vandy is easier than groups 1&2 for sure, and cornell too, but Dartmouth is known to have a lot of inflation compared to other ivies and Brown?! Seriously? Grades are optional, but of one needs a transcript with grades and a Gpa(cough, med school…law school…), As and A- are all 4.0. Every other ivy and T10 has A- equivalent to a 3.7 and A a 4.0.
Considering the median GPA at many ivies (all but princeton and penn) is a 3.75/3.8, with the A- equal to 3.7, Brown most likely has a 3.9 median[/quote]

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