Reply to The Top 50 National Universities by Average Rank from the 8 Most Influential Rankings

Forum Index » College and University Discussion

Reply to "The Top 50 National Universities by Average Rank from the 8 Most Influential Rankings"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Quick question if somebody had a choice of Pomona or Cornell which is more prestigious?  Being an East Coast Snob, I would say Cornell.  And Ivy is Ivy. That being said for those that know Pomona, know how hard it is to get into. Friend mine said there is always 1 or 2 kids at Harvard Law from Pomona every year.  But then again probably at least 10 from Cornell.  Hypothetical. [/quote]

I think it really depends on someone's goals. Pomona is a top-tier LAC in a fantastic and warm location that will provide a very intimate college experience. Cornell is large, cold, and can be quite impersonal. However it has a big brand behind it along with being in the ivy league, and its campus is beautiful if one can withstand the snow. It depends how much an individual really cares about having a more "popular" brand that will be recognized more often. For fields like academia, nonprofit work, law, and consulting, Pomona should hold up fine, but for more accessible fields and tech, the Cornell name might help. But Pomona certainly won't hold anyone back, it just doesn't have as much lay prestige.[/quote]

And note Pomona and Cornell are in the same tier in the tier rankings.  And usually around each other in surveys that rank SLACs and Nat Univs together. [/quote]

Are you the one who created the tiers above? If so, how did you come to those tiers?[/quote]
+1  people making their own "lists" based on what, exactly?[/quote]

I think it's fair but I think people should put disclaimers as to what they're looking at in their tiers. As someone with more interest in STEM, I'd go:

1A) MIT, Stanford, Princeton, Harvard, Caltech
1B) Duke, Yale, Penn, Columbia

2A) Vanderbilt, Rice, Northwestern, Dartmouth, Brown, UChicago, Cornell, Johns Hopkins, CMU, Berkeley, Williams, Amherst, Pomona, Olin
2B) UMich, WashU, Notre Dame, Georgetown, UCLA, Georgia Tech, Swarthmore, Bowdoin, Claremont McKenna

3A) UVA, UNC, UF, Emory, USC, UT Austin, Wellesley, Barnard, Carleton, Middlebury
3B) UCSD, BC, W&M, UIUC, W&L, Vassar, Davidson, Hamilton, Haverford[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics