Anonymous
Post 10/12/2018 22:03     Subject: The Inside the Beltway Bragging Rights University Rankings
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I know nothing about small schools and never am going to try to learn

Amherst.. no idea


Lol....well that says everything about you that I would care to know.


I don't get why they are prestigious (if they actually are)

Anonymous
Post 10/12/2018 21:39     Subject: The Inside the Beltway Bragging Rights University Rankings
Anonymous wrote:Shame on any parent that thinks like that! These are all great schools. Roughly half of the students at the Big 3 will attend one of the schools on this list. However, there are some obvious blind spots - you're missing the Air Force Academy and the HBCUs - Spelman, Morehouse and Howard.


If this was satire, then it was almost as good as what OP came up with. If not, I don't know what to say.
Anonymous
Post 10/12/2018 21:30     Subject: The Inside the Beltway Bragging Rights University Rankings
Anonymous wrote:I know nothing about small schools and never am going to try to learn

Amherst.. no idea


Lol....well that says everything about you that I would care to know.
Anonymous
Post 10/12/2018 21:29     Subject: The Inside the Beltway Bragging Rights University Rankings
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Ok, I’ll play your inane game. I don’t consider service academies particularly prestigious or academically rigorous and they’re not a great fit for the majority of applicants. Duke is too high and is always put in the same bucket as Northwestern and Vandy. Cornell is idiotically low. There are other LACs I’d include in one of your arbitrary clusters....Haverford, Wesleyan, etc.


I don't think you understand the service academies.


I don’t think you understand what big 3 parents consider prestigious. Hint, there’s a reason virtually no big 3 grads go to service academies.
Anonymous
Post 10/12/2018 21:21     Subject: The Inside the Beltway Bragging Rights University Rankings
I know nothing about small schools and never am going to try to learn

Amherst.. no idea
Anonymous
Post 10/12/2018 21:16     Subject: The Inside the Beltway Bragging Rights University Rankings
It's all about the car magnets, the flags and wearable swag.

Bonus points if your college or university has its own cutesy tag line/chant/logo/mascot/lingo, etc. THE Ohio State University, "we say grounds, not campus," Hook 'em Horns...

Oh, and personalized license plates.

Anonymous
Post 10/12/2018 21:10     Subject: The Inside the Beltway Bragging Rights University Rankings
Circa 2004 maybe
Anonymous
Post 10/12/2018 20:58     Subject: The Inside the Beltway Bragging Rights University Rankings
Boy do you have too much time on your hands. You really should leave this website and get a life.

See ya!
Anonymous
Post 10/12/2018 20:57     Subject: The Inside the Beltway Bragging Rights University Rankings
You don’t go to fancy enough cocktail parties, and it’s obvious you don’t send your children to big-3 private schools. Your list is for state university alumni parents.
Anonymous
Post 10/12/2018 20:38     Subject: The Inside the Beltway Bragging Rights University Rankings
Anonymous wrote:Ok, I’ll play your inane game. I don’t consider service academies particularly prestigious or academically rigorous and they’re not a great fit for the majority of applicants. Duke is too high and is always put in the same bucket as Northwestern and Vandy. Cornell is idiotically low. There are other LACs I’d include in one of your arbitrary clusters....Haverford, Wesleyan, etc.


I don't think you understand the service academies.
Anonymous
Post 10/12/2018 20:34     Subject: The Inside the Beltway Bragging Rights University Rankings
Anonymous wrote:Ok, I’ll play your inane game. I don’t consider service academies particularly prestigious or academically rigorous and they’re not a great fit for the majority of applicants. Duke is too high and is always put in the same bucket as Northwestern and Vandy. Cornell is idiotically low. There are other LACs I’d include in one of your arbitrary clusters....Haverford, Wesleyan, etc.


+1 on Duke. People believe it's possible to buy your way in there as regular UMC so it loses prestige points.

Cornell is about right though. The backdoor through the State college subtracts from the Ivy label.
Anonymous
Post 10/12/2018 20:19     Subject: Re:The Inside the Beltway Bragging Rights University Rankings
This guy probably threw this together whle bored at work. It's funny and probably made up of the schools he hears mostly about.
Anonymous
Post 10/12/2018 20:19     Subject: The Inside the Beltway Bragging Rights University Rankings
Anonymous wrote:What about every other university in the USA? Should they close their doors?


Nah the world needs ditch diggers too.
Anonymous
Post 10/12/2018 20:18     Subject: Re:The Inside the Beltway Bragging Rights University Rankings
Anonymous wrote:Where is Pomona?


Yeah, I don’t know either. Midwest somewhere?
Anonymous
Post 10/12/2018 20:13     Subject: The Inside the Beltway Bragging Rights University Rankings
Lol. 99% of high school students in the DC metro area don’t attend any of these schools. Even at the Uber prestigious prep schools, the majority of students are NOT attending schools in this list.

So what would you call those schools?