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

Yale is still Yale cmon ladies - Rory Gilmore didn’t go to Wesleyan or Williams, she went to Yale! but I have to agree with Vandy / Rice comment, they both have it going on these days. My DCs immediate and extended friend group (which is humungous) in the region all luv these 2 schools. Even the ones aiming for HYPMS consider these 2 schools “fun and cool”, which are two words never attributed to Cornell or JHU. Times change - both had a 70% acceptance rate not too long ago, and too much of DCUMs collective memory is firmly rooted in the past. Other than the extreme lefties, who Vandy and Rice don’t want anyway!

Expect Rice and Vandy to drop in the rankings this year, especially Rice.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can accept every list being proposed on this thread with the exception of those that include Cornell

Cornell CS, Engineering, Business(Dyson) are very prestigious.
Hotel Management NO

all very good programs, and Cornell is a great school - but agree not the tippy top kids. Think T15 in US News is cutoff in my circle for prestige

WashU and Rice are better than Cornell?

Anonymous wrote:West Point
Annapolis
Nearly any of the other service academies

No offense but these folks have multiple talents to include athleticism, leadership and spatial, community service.

You are going to enter the last true meritocracy in America.

All of the others can be bought.

I’m sorry, but overall the kids at the service academies are academically blown out of the water by most kids at T10 schools. And many of those kids will just work out/participate in intramural or club sports on their own. People who are going to push the boundaries in math, science, etc. don’t enroll at service academies.

West Point
Annapolis
Nearly any of the other service academies

No offense but these folks have multiple talents to include athleticism, leadership and spatial, community service.

You are going to enter the last true meritocracy in America.

All of the others can be bought.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just curious what the cutoff for prestige is for people in the DMV. Just HPSM? Does it extend further?

Troll much?

Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Stanford
MIT
Cal Tech
UPenn

Dartmouth
Brown
Cornell
(UChicago, Columbia, Hopkins, Northwestern)

Williams
Amherst

16

Obvious anti-Duke troll as many are on DCUM. Also if you’re going to include Williams and Amherst, you might as well add Swarthmore and Pomona

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just curious what the cutoff for prestige is for people in the DMV. Just HPSM? Does it extend further?

Troll much?

Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Stanford
MIT
Cal Tech
UPenn

Dartmouth
Brown
Cornell
(UChicago, Columbia, Hopkins, Northwestern)

Williams
Amherst

16

perfect list - just take out Dartmouth and Amherst

well done!

Propaganda by rich White ALDC

Anonymous wrote:Just curious what the cutoff for prestige is for people in the DMV. Just HPSM? Does it extend further?

Troll much?

Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Stanford
MIT
Cal Tech
UPenn

Dartmouth
Brown
Cornell
(UChicago, Columbia, Hopkins, Northwestern)

Williams
Amherst

16

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

Yale is still Yale cmon ladies - Rory Gilmore didn’t go to Wesleyan or Williams, she went to Yale! but I have to agree with Vandy / Rice comment, they both have it going on these days. My DCs immediate and extended friend group (which is humungous) in the region all luv these 2 schools. Even the ones aiming for HYPMS consider these 2 schools “fun and cool”, which are two words never attributed to Cornell or JHU. Times change - both had a 70% acceptance rate not too long ago, and too much of DCUMs collective memory is firmly rooted in the past. Other than the extreme lefties, who Vandy and Rice don’t want anyway!

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.

Lol, we know which schools your snowflakes were rejected from. This isn't supposed to be a gripe thread.

+1

Oh great - yet another gripe thread!

A comprehensive list based upon wide consensus would probably include the following colleges and universities:

Amherst, Barnard, Bates, Bowdoin, Brown, Bryn Mawr, Cal (Berkeley), Cal Tech, Carnegie Mellon, Carleton, Chicago, Colby, Colgate, Columbia, Cornell, Claremont McKenna, Curtis (Institute of Music), Dartmouth, Davidson, Duke, Emory, Georgetown, Grinnell, Hamilton, Haverford, Harvard, Harvey Mudd, Howard, Johns Hopkins, Juilliard, Kenyon, Michigan, Middlebury, MIT, Mount Holyoke, Northwestern, Notre Dame, NYU, Oberlin, Olin, Penn, Pomona, Princeton, Reed, Rice, RISD, Scripps, Spelman, Stanford, St. John's College (Annapolis & Santa Fe), Smith, Swarthmore, UCLA, UNC, USC, UT Austin, UVA, Vanderbilt, Vassar, Washington & Lee, Wellesley, Wesleyan, Williams, Wisconsin (Madison), WUSTL, Yale and the U.S. academies (West Point et al).

So approximately 70 schools out of 653 national university and liberal arts colleges combined according to U.S. News and World Report which in turn is approximately 2.5% of all 4-year U.S. colleges and universities and 1.6% of all U.S. colleges and universities.

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

keep dreaming. based on what?

Anonymous wrote:

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.

so?

Then Ivies are pretty much entirely legacies, athletes, and URM. So not the necessarily the smartest or most competent.

The top students with the most potential are most likely in the #15 to #50 schools.

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.

Lol, we know which schools your snowflakes were rejected from. This isn't supposed to be a gripe thread.