Anonymous
08/02/2023 22:10
Subject: What Schools Do You Consider “Prestigious?”
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:MIT
Stanford
Harvard
Princeton
Cal Tech
Penn, but only Wharton
Vanderbilt
Rice
Duke
Williams
Juiliard
West Point
Naval Academy
Other schools have great programs, but for overall "prestige" in the US, I think that's it.
Vanderbilt, but not Yale? Lol. No
Yale hasn't been a meaningful university in 30 years. Vanderbilt and Rice have it going on these days. Times change
Of that top group, Princeton and MIT are the ones that tend to be a bit overrated in my book (as in not worthy of the very top spot). Princeton is hardly in that Harvard and Yale discussion if not for USNWR (that HYP group that people keep trying to add letters to is written in that order for a reason), and MIT has fairly strong econ and social sciences programs but it just isn't as well rounded as an overall university. MIT has also benefitted from a few not-so-well-designed outcome based studies relating to college-wide salary info (rather than by major). Harvard and Stanford are 1 and 1a in my book when it comes to the total undergrad, grad school, and research package.
Harvard is obviously the most famous brand, but the academic quality of the undergraduate experience at Yale and Princeton by every account I’ve ever come across is far superior.
Anonymous
08/02/2023 22:10
Subject: Re:What Schools Do You Consider “Prestigious?”
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:What about Willams or Amherst? Those in the know, know.
Pomona and Swarthmore have surpassed Williams and Amherst selectivity wise. They are not in brutally cold areas either, which helps attract students and faculty!
+1
Anonymous
08/02/2023 22:07
Subject: What Schools Do You Consider “Prestigious?”
Harvard. The end.
Kidding, kind of. But what a silly exercise!
Kidding, kind of. But what a silly exercise!
Anonymous
08/02/2023 22:03
Subject: What Schools Do You Consider “Prestigious?”
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:MIT
Stanford
Harvard
Princeton
Cal Tech
Penn, but only Wharton
Vanderbilt
Rice
Duke
Williams
Juiliard
West Point
Naval Academy
Other schools have great programs, but for overall "prestige" in the US, I think that's it.
Vanderbilt, but not Yale? Lol. No
Yale hasn't been a meaningful university in 30 years. Vanderbilt and Rice have it going on these days. Times change
Of that top group, Princeton and MIT are the ones that tend to be a bit overrated in my book (as in not worthy of the very top spot). Princeton is hardly in that Harvard and Yale discussion if not for USNWR (that HYP group that people keep trying to add letters to is written in that order for a reason), and MIT has fairly strong econ and social sciences programs but it just isn't as well rounded as an overall university. MIT has also benefitted from a few not-so-well-designed outcome based studies relating to college-wide salary info (rather than by major). Harvard and Stanford are 1 and 1a in my book when it comes to the total undergrad, grad school, and research package.
Anonymous
08/02/2023 21:54
Subject: What Schools Do You Consider “Prestigious?”
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:MIT
Stanford
Harvard
Princeton
Cal Tech
Penn, but only Wharton
Vanderbilt
Rice
Duke
Williams
Juiliard
West Point
Naval Academy
Other schools have great programs, but for overall "prestige" in the US, I think that's it.
Vanderbilt, but not Yale? Lol. No
Yale hasn't been a meaningful university in 30 years. Vanderbilt and Rice have it going on these days. Times change
Aren't Vandy and Rice the Harvard and Yale of the South though?
Anonymous
08/02/2023 21:52
Subject: Re:What Schools Do You Consider “Prestigious?”
This thread was just set up to get people to take the Yale bait. Let this one go...
No one actually cares about what a few random anonymous posters think about college prestige.
If you want to give a legitimate list, at least provide some minimal credentials about yourself so we can decide whether to give your opinion any weight.
Degrees from W top X schools, work in Y industry.
No one actually cares about what a few random anonymous posters think about college prestige.
If you want to give a legitimate list, at least provide some minimal credentials about yourself so we can decide whether to give your opinion any weight.
Degrees from W top X schools, work in Y industry.
Anonymous
08/02/2023 21:45
Subject: Re:What Schools Do You Consider “Prestigious?”
Anonymous wrote:What about Willams or Amherst? Those in the know, know.
Pomona and Swarthmore have surpassed Williams and Amherst selectivity wise. They are not in brutally cold areas either, which helps attract students and faculty!
Anonymous
08/02/2023 21:43
Subject: What Schools Do You Consider “Prestigious?”
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:MIT
Stanford
Harvard
Princeton
Cal Tech
Penn, but only Wharton
Vanderbilt
Rice
Duke
Williams
Juiliard
West Point
Naval Academy
Other schools have great programs, but for overall "prestige" in the US, I think that's it.
Vanderbilt, but not Yale? Lol. No
Yale hasn't been a meaningful university in 30 years. Vanderbilt and Rice have it going on these days. Times change
Anonymous
08/02/2023 21:34
Subject: Re:What Schools Do You Consider “Prestigious?”
I can’t believe the UVA crazies haven’t added it in yet. They love a good list!
Anonymous
08/02/2023 21:12
Subject: What Schools Do You Consider “Prestigious?”
Rice? Another big no
Anonymous
08/02/2023 21:11
Subject: What Schools Do You Consider “Prestigious?”
Anonymous wrote:MIT
Stanford
Harvard
Princeton
Cal Tech
Penn, but only Wharton
Vanderbilt
Rice
Duke
Williams
Juiliard
West Point
Naval Academy
Other schools have great programs, but for overall "prestige" in the US, I think that's it.
Vanderbilt, but not Yale? Lol. No
Anonymous
08/02/2023 21:10
Subject: What Schools Do You Consider “Prestigious?”
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:People on this thread are conflating "prestigious" with "lucrative".
People on this thread are scamming something not really valuable as 'prestigious'
What's more prestigious, being President of the US making $400k or being a Senior Associate in your 20s at a Private Equity firm making $400k?
Both are very valuable and prestigious.
I'll personally take the latter.
And you would be hopelessly in over your head on the former.
Anonymous
08/02/2023 20:53
Subject: What Schools Do You Consider “Prestigious?”
MIT
Stanford
Harvard
Princeton
Cal Tech
Penn, but only Wharton
Vanderbilt
Rice
Duke
Williams
Juiliard
West Point
Naval Academy
Other schools have great programs, but for overall "prestige" in the US, I think that's it.
Stanford
Harvard
Princeton
Cal Tech
Penn, but only Wharton
Vanderbilt
Rice
Duke
Williams
Juiliard
West Point
Naval Academy
Other schools have great programs, but for overall "prestige" in the US, I think that's it.
Anonymous
08/02/2023 20:32
Subject: What Schools Do You Consider “Prestigious?”
Anonymous wrote: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.
Lol ok
Indeed! Blue collar jobs are not "prestigious ". I do not think that poster knows what the word means.
Anonymous
08/02/2023 19:56
Subject: What Schools Do You Consider “Prestigious?”
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I consider below “elite”:
Harvard
Stanford
MIT
Yale
Princeton
Caltech
Penn
Chicago
Duke
Northwestern
Dartmouth
Brown
Cornell
Johns Hopkins
+ Columbia
Thanks, Obama
+ Swarthmore (where he wasn’t accepted)
You folks are insufferable. Perhaps because you were miserable when you were there.