Anonymous
05/23/2025 13:53
Subject: Where does prestige stop?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Most prestigious:
Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Caltech, Penn, Princeton
Less prestigious:
Yale, Columbia, Hopkins, Chicago, Northwestern
Afterwards:
No prestige
Penn does not belong in that top group. Not even Wharton. Yale has far more prestige.
30 years ago you would have been correct. Now Penn is in the top group.
Not if you look at admissions data like non-binding yield. Not even close.
Anonymous
05/23/2025 13:46
Subject: Where does prestige stop?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:At Tulane? At American? GWU?
None of those are prestigious
Prestige is ivy+ (ivies plus mit stanford duke chicago)
Or maybe expand to the top20 privates plus WAS lacs. Some would add the top 5 publics but only UCB is truly prestigious.
Somewhat true. But these days top students want to go to UCLA more than Berkeley and Pomona more than WAS.
They want to go USC.
Anonymous
05/23/2025 13:43
Subject: Re:Where does prestige stop?
“Prestige “ stops with people who genuinely value education. While some schools obviously offer more opportunities, access, and resources than others, the prestigious part comes in actually utilizing those opportunities to enrich yourself as a person. It really does go beyond the name on the hoodie— unless someone is so limited that that’s all they understand and care about.
Anonymous
05/23/2025 13:40
Subject: Where does prestige stop?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Most prestigious:
Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Caltech, Penn, Princeton
Less prestigious:
Yale, Columbia, Hopkins, Chicago, Northwestern
Afterwards:
No prestige
Penn does not belong in that top group. Not even Wharton. Yale has far more prestige.
30 years ago you would have been correct. Now Penn is in the top group.
Anonymous
05/23/2025 13:39
Subject: Where does prestige stop?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Most prestigious:
Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Caltech, Penn, Princeton
Less prestigious:
Yale, Columbia, Hopkins, Chicago, Northwestern
Afterwards:
No prestige
Penn does not belong in that top group. Not even Wharton. Yale has far more prestige.
It's also missing Duke.
Duke has no prestige.
Anonymous
05/23/2025 13:38
Subject: Where does prestige stop?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:DMV - T20 (or UVA) or bust
Right outside DMV - T50 or bust
Everywhere else (other than Boston or wealthy Cali areas) - any school your kid got into that is happy at = bumper sticker for that school on the car
Georgetown is also outside T20, but deemed prestigious by many if not most of the people I've personally polled.
ftfy
Anonymous
05/23/2025 13:31
Subject: Where does prestige stop?
Anonymous wrote:For the life of me I will never understand the psychology of someone who wants a definitive list of what is prestigious or impressive and what is not. I mean, it is such a nuanced thing that depends on metrics you're evaluating on, who the person judging is, etc...
Why would you even ask this question?
Are you trying to get someone to confirm for you that ivies and MIT are the only super special schools?
+1
Anonymous
05/23/2025 13:29
Subject: Where does prestige stop?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:At Tulane? At American? GWU?
None of those are prestigious
Prestige is ivy+ (ivies plus mit stanford duke chicago)
Or maybe expand to the top20 privates plus WAS lacs. Some would add the top 5 publics but only UCB is truly prestigious.
Somewhat true. But these days top students want to go to UCLA more than Berkeley and Pomona more than WAS.
Anonymous
05/23/2025 13:26
Subject: Where does prestige stop?
What is wrong with you people
Anonymous
05/23/2025 13:10
Subject: Where does prestige stop?
Anonymous wrote:At Tulane? At American? GWU?
None of those are prestigious
Prestige is ivy+ (ivies plus mit stanford duke chicago)
Or maybe expand to the top20 privates plus WAS lacs. Some would add the top 5 publics but only UCB is truly prestigious.
Anonymous
05/23/2025 13:06
Subject: Re:Where does prestige stop?
Prestige stops at the lowest ranked school which rejected me.
Anonymous
05/23/2025 13:05
Subject: Where does prestige stop?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Most prestigious:
Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Caltech, Penn, Princeton
Less prestigious:
Yale, Columbia, Hopkins, Chicago, Northwestern
Afterwards:
No prestige
Penn does not belong in that top group. Not even Wharton. Yale has far more prestige.
It's also missing Duke.
Anonymous
05/23/2025 12:59
Subject: Where does prestige stop?
Anonymous wrote:Most prestigious:
Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Caltech, Penn, Princeton
Less prestigious:
Yale, Columbia, Hopkins, Chicago, Northwestern
Afterwards:
No prestige
Penn does not belong in that top group. Not even Wharton. Yale has far more prestige.
Anonymous
05/23/2025 12:57
Subject: Where does prestige stop?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:A lot also depends on the age of the person. Older people aren't impressed by state schools, unless it is UVA, Berkley or Michigan. People in their 50's probably add Texas, UCLA and UNC to the list.
Regionally, a lot of state schools have a lot of prestige.
So obvious your kid in UVA LOL
Nope. H2P. And I didn't go there either. Things are different now. Now it is big deal, if you are in Ohio, to go to Ohio State. Same goes for Penn State if you are a PA resident and VA Tech if you are from VA.
UCLA has an edge over UVA nationally and internationally beside of fact that it's T20, and UVA = UNC, but they are all comparable to T50 private schools such as USC, NYU, Tufts, BU, BC, Northeastern, Wake Forrest.
Anonymous
05/23/2025 12:54
Subject: Where does prestige stop?
With you. You can determine how much prestige matters to you. Other people determine how it matters to them. There are giant gaps among people.