Anonymous wrote:We all know they're just expensive backups that are no better than the better state flagships, but private school parents have convinced themselves that they're prestigious.

In US News order:

WashU
Emory
NYU
BU
Wake
Northeastern
Tulane

Sure, not prestigious at all...

THE World ranking

US World
1 2 Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States
2 3 Princeton UniversityUnited States
3 5 Harvard UniversityUnited States
3 5 Stanford UniversityUnited States
5 7 California Institute of TechnologyUnited States
6 9 University of California, BerkeleyUnited States
7 10 Yale UniversityUnited States
8 14 University of PennsylvaniaUnited States
9 15 The University of ChicagoUnited States
10 16 Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States
11 18 Cornell UniversityUnited States
11 18 University of California, Los AngelesUnited States
13 20 Columbia UniversityUnited States
14 23 University of Michigan-Ann ArborUnited States
15 24 Carnegie Mellon UniversityUnited States
16 25 University of WashingtonUnited States
17 28 Duke UniversityUnited States
18 30 Northwestern UniversityUnited States
19 31 New York UniversityUnited States
20 41 Georgia Institute of TechnologyUnited States
20 41 University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignUnited States
22 47 University of California, San DiegoUnited States
23 50 University of Texas at AustinUnited States
24 53 University of Wisconsin-MadisonUnited States
25 64 University of California, DavisUnited States
26 65 Brown UniversityUnited States
27 67 Washington University in St LouisUnited States
28 72 University of California, Santa BarbaraUnited States
29 73 University of Southern CaliforniaUnited States
30 76 Boston UniversityUnited States
31 78 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States
32 85 Purdue University West LafayetteUnited States
33 88 University of MinnesotaUnited States
34 92 Vanderbilt UniversityUnited States
35 97 University of California, IrvineUnited States
36 102 Emory UniversityUnited States

Anonymous wrote:WUSTL is an excellent school and significantly above most flagships, although it is a bit dumpy and lacks the panache of the ivy+. Same is true of Emory.

NYU is a world class school and you're showing your ass by even mentioning it here.

Surprised Tufts wasn't on the list though.

NYU used to be world class. Now they are just a breeding ground for terrorist sympathizers.

Anonymous wrote:If "perceived prestige" is what you're concerned with, the simple answer to this question is to look at the school's "yield rate" (the percentage of admitted students that actually choose to enroll in the schools. Harvard's is very high (80%). Most of these schools are in the 40-50% range, on par with, say, Michigan, UVA, or UNC's yield rate, but much higher than Ohio State, Maryland. Some of these, like NYU have >50% yield rates, much higher than state flagships. Others, like Emory and Wake, are in the 30s, much lower than the more prestigious flagships. If you're only interested in the quality of education your kid will receive, there's very little difference between any of these schools.

Yield rate can be manipulated as seen in Chicago. Without ED0-ED3, the yield rate for Chicago would be much much lower.

If "perceived prestige" is what you're concerned with, the simple answer to this question is to look at the school's "yield rate" (the percentage of admitted students that actually choose to enroll in the schools. Harvard's is very high (80%). Most of these schools are in the 40-50% range, on par with, say, Michigan, UVA, or UNC's yield rate, but much higher than Ohio State, Maryland. Some of these, like NYU have >50% yield rates, much higher than state flagships. Others, like Emory and Wake, are in the 30s, much lower than the more prestigious flagships. If you're only interested in the quality of education your kid will receive, there's very little difference between any of these schools.

Anonymous wrote:We all know they're just expensive backups that are no better than the better state flagships, but private school parents have convinced themselves that they're prestigious.

In US News order:

WashU
Emory
NYU
BU
Wake
Northeastern
Tulane

those two are prestigious

Money says that OP and friends are teenagers who are here trolling to get a rise out of people.

Anonymous wrote:We all know they're just expensive backups that are no better than the better state flagships, but private school parents have convinced themselves that they're prestigious.

In US News order:

WashU
Emory
NYU
BU
Wake
Northeastern
Tulane

Wrong order.
Northeastern is ranked higher than Wake by US News.

Anonymous wrote:Why is “harder to get into” relevant regarding quality of education?

Actual demand by the actual students.
Quality of education among all other factors is accounted for in the demand.

Backups? Backups to what? These are all excellent schools that are very difficult to be admitted to. It sounds like you are trying to denigrate them.

Pseudo intellectual OP now eating their words.

Anonymous wrote:georgetown would fit this title well

Stop. Get a life.

georgetown would fit this title well

Anonymous wrote:Everyone I know at U Chicago is autistic.

You are a moron.

Anonymous wrote:Everyone I know at U Chicago is autistic.

i think you are the dumb one

Everyone I know at U Chicago is autistic.