Anonymous
Post 08/02/2023 02:30     Subject: What Schools Do You Consider “Prestigious?”
I consider below “elite”:

Harvard
Stanford
MIT
Yale
Princeton
Caltech
Penn
Chicago
Duke
Northwestern
Dartmouth
Brown
Cornell
Johns Hopkins
Anonymous
Post 08/02/2023 02:21     Subject: What Schools Do You Consider “Prestigious?”
I actually think of art/design/music/performance colleges when I think of prestigious places. Places like RISD, Juilliard, Tisch, etc.
Anonymous
Post 08/02/2023 02:20     Subject: What Schools Do You Consider “Prestigious?”
I guess any school with less than 10% acceptance rate, more than $50K tuition and more than $5 billion endowment should meet your "prestigious" standard.
Anonymous
Post 08/02/2023 01:58     Subject: What Schools Do You Consider “Prestigious?”
Anonymous wrote:Just being real, not state schools. Not even IC Berkeley. Of course HYPMS, but also the “lower” Ivies and also the odd private school like Northwestern and Emory and probably a few more if I really thought about it.


FWIW I have a relative who attended Emory in undergrad (now employed as a physician). She did not realize, in her forties, that Spain was not an actor in World War 2.
Anonymous
Post 08/02/2023 01:53     Subject: What Schools Do You Consider “Prestigious?”
Anonymous wrote:HPSM (no Y)
Oxford
Cambridge
Wharton
Sciences Po
Georgetown SFS



This must be the same poster who loves to exclude Yale since everyone everywhere includes Y in HYP. Must have an ax to grind.
Anonymous
Post 08/01/2023 22:58     Subject: What Schools Do You Consider “Prestigious?”
Anonymous wrote:HPSM (no Y)
Oxford
Cambridge
Wharton
Sciences Po
Georgetown SFS


It is kind of sad that people would respond to this thread with an actual list. This could very well be OP though !
Anonymous
Post 08/01/2023 22:54     Subject: What Schools Do You Consider “Prestigious?”
HPSM (no Y)
Oxford
Cambridge
Wharton
Sciences Po
Georgetown SFS

Anonymous
Post 08/01/2023 22:50     Subject: What Schools Do You Consider “Prestigious?”
Someone should just bite and add Yale. That is clearly what the OP is waiting for. Does prestige extend to Yale in 2023? Tough question.

Once you hit 30 no one really cares anyway, especially if you're just talking about undergrad.
Anonymous
Post 08/01/2023 22:46     Subject: What Schools Do You Consider “Prestigious?”
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Just curious what the cutoff for prestige is for people in the DMV. Just HPSM? Does it extend further?


What is wrong with you?


I'm waiting for a friend to weigh in to ensure their school makes the prestige cut - and I'm not talking about MI or UVA boosters (who get way too much grief here), but people who really think their life - or their children's - is going to turn out horribly wrong if they attend a public school, etc. Must be top USNWR for universities or LACs, but no publics, absolutely no publics.

And all of this when they pretty much lead a very ordinary life with no real professional accomplishment to point to at the end of the day.
Anonymous
Post 08/01/2023 22:33     Subject: What Schools Do You Consider “Prestigious?”
Anonymous wrote:Just curious what the cutoff for prestige is for people in the DMV. Just HPSM? Does it extend further?


What is wrong with you?
Anonymous
Post 08/01/2023 22:31     Subject: What Schools Do You Consider “Prestigious?”
Just being real, not state schools. Not even IC Berkeley. Of course HYPMS, but also the “lower” Ivies and also the odd private school like Northwestern and Emory and probably a few more if I really thought about it.
Anonymous
Post 08/01/2023 22:27     Subject: What Schools Do You Consider “Prestigious?”
Anonymous wrote:No college is “prestigious” in 2023. You want real prestige? Go to trade school and become a welder, electrician, or plumber. Or, hell, get licensed as a commercial trucker. Those professions command respect from people in a way that a degree from Snowflake University could never hope to parallel.


Those are all important and respectable professions but let’s not kid ourselves about what prestige they enable. You think an electrical engineering degree from MIT is less prestigious than learning how to be an electrician from trade school?
Anonymous
Post 08/01/2023 22:17     Subject: What Schools Do You Consider “Prestigious?”
None.
Anonymous
Post 08/01/2023 22:16     Subject: What Schools Do You Consider “Prestigious?”
No college is “prestigious” in 2023. You want real prestige? Go to trade school and become a welder, electrician, or plumber. Or, hell, get licensed as a commercial trucker. Those professions command respect from people in a way that a degree from Snowflake University could never hope to parallel.
Anonymous
Post 08/01/2023 21:56     Subject: What Schools Do You Consider “Prestigious?”
Just curious what the cutoff for prestige is for people in the DMV. Just HPSM? Does it extend further?