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Anonymous wrote:Not sure about Bucknell but the outcomes of Holy Cross grads is impressive.

We all wondered when you were going to show up.

Bucknell, Holy Cross and Northeastern - the holy trinity of DCUM

Anonymous wrote:Not sure about Bucknell but the outcomes of Holy Cross grads is impressive.

We all wondered when you were going to show up.

Ivies, Duke, MIT, CalTech, Williams, Amherst, Stanford.

I think Amherst has changed a lot, generally for the worse, but its long-term rep will keep it at the top for a while.

Lock the thread. Mic drop.

The "prestigious" are Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Hopkins, West Point, MIT, Annapolis, Stanford.

Anonymous wrote:Columbia , UPenn , Brown and Dartmouth in a lower cluster and Cornell an outlier given a huuuge no of undergrads there

Who thinks Columbia is anything other than a grotesque imitation of an institution of higher learning?

Anonymous wrote:Harvard
Yale
Stanford
Princeton
MIT
Cal Tech
UChicago
Duke
Northwestern
Cornell
Brown

+1

Not sure about Bucknell but the outcomes of Holy Cross grads is impressive.

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Anonymous wrote:If you stay at DCUM long enough, these Prestige rankings would have you believe UVA/W&M are TOP 10, JMU is top 20 and the SEC now is TOP 30.

Well, by any measurement SEC schools like Vanderbilt, Texas, and Florida are all very good schools and are in fact ranked in the top 30.

Looking at the 4 elite feeders that a PP linked you can see that though they are good schools Texas and Florida get zero interest from these families and Vandy is a minor player as well. Overall the elite outside of the South really don't care for SEC schools with the possible exception of RIce.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't think most of us here are "in the know"

Harvard, Stanford, and Yale have global name recognition. Beyond that, the lay prestige varies considerably by region in the US and country abroad.

Honestly Yale isn’t really global the way Harvard and Stanford are. Internationally Yale and Columbia probably hold the same weight

Yes, many people overseas have never heard of Yale but definitley know Harvard, actually the only US school with branding overseas.

Yale grad. Not my experience.

Columbia , UPenn , Brown and Dartmouth in a lower cluster and Cornell an outlier given a huuuge no of undergrads there

Anonymous wrote:If you stay at DCUM long enough, these Prestige rankings would have you believe UVA/W&M are TOP 10, JMU is top 20 and the SEC now is TOP 30.

In the LAC world, if you stay at DCUM long enough, Bucknell and Holy Cross belong to top 10.

Among the historical top ten, UChicago has slipped to a lower ranked school that heavily rely on ED practice, for a long time. Columbia has been heavily impacted in the past two years. Hopefully it will remain/rise to its position. We will see. Penn solidly replaces UChicago in the top ten list. Cornell is promising. The problem with Cornell is its huge size, but it doesn't have the diploma mill master degree thing going on rampantly in Columbia.

Anonymous wrote:If you stay at DCUM long enough, these Prestige rankings would have you believe UVA/W&M are TOP 10, JMU is top 20 and the SEC now is TOP 30.

Very reasonable rankings.

Anonymous wrote:If you stay at DCUM long enough, these Prestige rankings would have you believe UVA/W&M are TOP 10, JMU is top 20 and the SEC now is TOP 30.

Well, by any measurement SEC schools like Vanderbilt, Texas, and Florida are all very good schools and are in fact ranked in the top 30.