Anonymous
03/13/2025 13:24
Subject: Top universities with "perceived" prestige.
Harvard
MIT
Stanford
Princeton
Yale
Caltech
Columbia
Penn
Berkeley
Chicago
Johns Hopkins
MIT
Stanford
Princeton
Yale
Caltech
Columbia
Penn
Berkeley
Chicago
Johns Hopkins
Anonymous
03/13/2025 13:06
Subject: Top universities with "perceived" prestige.
Prestige is relative and subjective, so there's that. My subjective list would be something like (and thinking about undergraduate only):
Harvard
MIT
Stanford
Yale
Princeton
Caltech
Columbia (although it is leaking air)
Coming from a different dimension I would add West Point and Annapolis. That gets me to 9 and I'll stop there.
Harvard
MIT
Stanford
Yale
Princeton
Caltech
Columbia (although it is leaking air)
Coming from a different dimension I would add West Point and Annapolis. That gets me to 9 and I'll stop there.
Anonymous
03/13/2025 11:10
Subject: Re:Top universities with "perceived" prestige.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Why do we have incessant threads like this?
It seems like HYPSM should be secure and not needing to dunk on anyone else. My experience is they don’t IRL.
Top non-Ivy schools trying to legitimize and bump up status so agenda is to dunk on non-HYP ivies.
Berkeley, UofM, UCLA, UVA, UNC want to overcome public label and be legitimized.
The amount of Emory, WashU, Wake level schools that are so insecure for no reason. They are great schools, I hate reading threads tearing each other down to be the best of that range.
And I’m sure a million more examples.
My sense it is the very top and then the schools outside of T75 that are quite content and secure with their positions, and the rest just come off so desperate.
21,24,...46?! Is not the same level. Get over it.
You again?
Anonymous
03/13/2025 10:14
Subject: Top universities with "perceived" prestige.
From South America, we only knew of Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Duke, Caltech, Berkeley, UCLA, and University of Texas
Anonymous
03/13/2025 09:27
Subject: Top universities with "perceived" prestige.
Anonymous wrote:A lot students in my neighborhood go to Penn State and almost all of us would refer to the college as Penn. No one says Penn State.
No one? Ever heard the "We Are . . . Penn State" chant at football games? Everyone everywhere else says Penn State.
Anonymous
03/13/2025 04:57
Subject: Re:Top universities with "perceived" prestige.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Why do we have incessant threads like this?
It seems like HYPSM should be secure and not needing to dunk on anyone else. My experience is they don’t IRL.
Top non-Ivy schools trying to legitimize and bump up status so agenda is to dunk on non-HYP ivies.
Berkeley, UofM, UCLA, UVA, UNC want to overcome public label and be legitimized.
The amount of Emory, WashU, Wake level schools that are so insecure for no reason. They are great schools, I hate reading threads tearing each other down to be the best of that range.
And I’m sure a million more examples.
My sense it is the very top and then the schools outside of T75 that are quite content and secure with their positions, and the rest just come off so desperate.
21,24,...46?! Is not the same level. Get over it.
Isn’t it you that’s not over it? There are nearly 4000 colleges and universities and Wake was in same range before they changed methodology, nothing about that school changed overnight. So, yes, they are at the same level and it’s still to cut down one over another. They are all excellent institutions.
Anonymous
03/12/2025 23:54
Subject: Top universities with "perceived" prestige.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:A lot students in my neighborhood go to Penn State and almost all of us would refer to the college as Penn. No one says Penn State.
Sounds like a blue collar neighborhood.
Yeah strange
I grew up in nova. I know a lot of Penn state alum. They all say “Penn State”. Everyone knows University of Pennsylvania is an Ivy and known as “Penn”
Anonymous
03/12/2025 22:55
Subject: Top universities with "perceived" prestige.
Anonymous wrote:A lot students in my neighborhood go to Penn State and almost all of us would refer to the college as Penn. No one says Penn State.
Sounds like a blue collar neighborhood.
Anonymous
03/12/2025 22:30
Subject: Top universities with "perceived" prestige.
Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Stanford
MIT
Williams
Coin tosses.
Yale
Princeton
Stanford
MIT
Williams
Coin tosses.
Anonymous
03/12/2025 22:25
Subject: Re:Top universities with "perceived" prestige.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Why do we have incessant threads like this?
Some users of this forum think they need to boast about their school for their diploma to be of adequate value. They approach education like it’s some sort of credibility Ponzi scheme. In my experience, they are usually the ones who have accomplished the least and hence are the most insecure. My advice is to ignore their drivel and focus on the 3-5% of posts with actual information that will help you navigate your child to a college whose fit will maximize engagement.
+1
Anonymous
03/12/2025 22:13
Subject: Top universities with "perceived" prestige.
A lot students in my neighborhood go to Penn State and almost all of us would refer to the college as Penn. No one says Penn State.
Anonymous
03/12/2025 19:35
Subject: Top universities with "perceived" prestige.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Notre Dame, Penn State and UNC are dream schools for some kids way beyond any IVY league.
That’s because they can’t get into an Ivy or another top school.
No one in their right mind would pick Penn State over a T10 school unless it is for financial reasons.
There are lots of people who think Penn and Penn State are the same school. I'm guessing maybe that poster ? LOL
Anyone confusing Penn for anything else is an unsophisticated imbecile.
Anonymous
03/12/2025 19:25
Subject: Re:Top universities with "perceived" prestige.
Anonymous wrote:Why do we have incessant threads like this?
It seems like HYPSM should be secure and not needing to dunk on anyone else. My experience is they don’t IRL.
Top non-Ivy schools trying to legitimize and bump up status so agenda is to dunk on non-HYP ivies.
Berkeley, UofM, UCLA, UVA, UNC want to overcome public label and be legitimized.
The amount of Emory, WashU, Wake level schools that are so insecure for no reason. They are great schools, I hate reading threads tearing each other down to be the best of that range.
And I’m sure a million more examples.
My sense it is the very top and then the schools outside of T75 that are quite content and secure with their positions, and the rest just come off so desperate.
21,24,...46?! Is not the same level. Get over it.
Anonymous
03/12/2025 19:24
Subject: Top universities with "perceived" prestige.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Notre Dame, Penn State and UNC are dream schools for some kids way beyond any IVY league.
That’s because they can’t get into an Ivy or another top school.
No one in their right mind would pick Penn State over a T10 school unless it is for financial reasons.
There are lots of people who think Penn and Penn State are the same school. I'm guessing maybe that poster ? LOL
Anonymous
03/12/2025 19:15
Subject: Top universities with "perceived" prestige.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The Ansnwer is pretty simple as it has always been….please spare me the PUBLIC BS….
It is Ivies +
The + = Stanford, MIT, Caltech
The rest is irrelevant. Sure there are great schools in the “rest” category. But when the word os PRESTIGE, it is very simple as it has always been and as it will always be, no matter how many alums or moms around here want to scream UVA, DUKE, VANDY, NORTHWESTERN, CHICAGO….BLABLABLABLABLA
Yes, & if your girlfriend isn’t a supermodel who is also a neurosurgeon, you should refuse to be seen in public with her.
True.
But PP is correct. All it matters for Prestige is IVY +. Let’s stop the madness….
And whoever said nobody knows what Duke is, is 100% correct. My husband is a Duke undergrad and Cornell MBA. We lived in Europe for 15 years. Guess which school people that we worked with knew about? It wasn’t Duke….