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Anonymous wrote:Nobody heard of Nvidia and its CEO--and now it's one of the Magnificent 7.

I think this is a good example - I have no idea who Nvidia is, and when you tell me I should be impressed I’m simply not.

Umm. What?
Are you uneducated??
Poor?

Anonymous wrote:Nobody heard of Nvidia and its CEO--and now it's one of the Magnificent 7.

I think this is a good example - I have no idea who Nvidia is, and when you tell me I should be impressed I’m simply not.

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Anonymous wrote:Huge difference. No comparison. I grew up outside the USA and no one there has heard of Vanderbilt or Wash U

Globally, the only schools that really register are Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Berkeley and NYU for some reason.

In many countries the best universities are in the most prominent cities…University of Copenhagen, University of Sydney, university of Toronto, University of Edinburgh etc.

So, many people around the world just assume NYU must be something special. Boston U gets a benefit-of-the-doubt bump on the world stage as well, but to a lesser degree.

If Washington University were in DC, it would probably get a huge bump in name recognition.

Georgetown doesn’t get the recognition outside of the US. Nobody knows what it is.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Huge difference. No comparison. I grew up outside the USA and no one there has heard of Vanderbilt or Wash U

Globally, the only schools that really register are Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Berkeley and NYU for some reason.

In many countries the best universities are in the most prominent cities…University of Copenhagen, University of Sydney, university of Toronto, University of Edinburgh etc.

So, many people around the world just assume NYU must be something special. Boston U gets a benefit-of-the-doubt bump on the world stage as well, but to a lesser degree.

If Washington University were in DC, it would probably get a huge bump in name recognition.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Huge difference. No comparison. I grew up outside the USA and no one there has heard of Vanderbilt or Wash U

Globally, the only schools that really register are Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Berkeley and NYU for some reason.

Not true. I’m Italian, worked in Germany, UK, Dubai and Tokyo over 25 years. Now in the US.

Sure the ones you mention everyone knows PLUS:

Wharton, Yale, Princeton, Michigan, UCLA, Cornell.

I dont care what anybody else here says. Outside of these 11 schools, nobody else knows much about any of the other schools….it is that simple. These command respect. Everything else is (oh…let me look at it as I dont know much about it….)

Since most US graduates are working in the US post college, global recognition is unimportant to the majority.

Maybe so, but that was not what the PP was talking about…..he was specifically talking about 5 schools people know outside of the US.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Huge difference. No comparison. I grew up outside the USA and no one there has heard of Vanderbilt or Wash U

Globally, the only schools that really register are Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Berkeley and NYU for some reason.

Not true. I’m Italian, worked in Germany, UK, Dubai and Tokyo over 25 years. Now in the US.

Sure the ones you mention everyone knows PLUS:

Wharton, Yale, Princeton, Michigan, UCLA, Cornell.

I dont care what anybody else here says. Outside of these 11 schools, nobody else knows much about any of the other schools….it is that simple. These command respect. Everything else is (oh…let me look at it as I dont know much about it….)

Since most US graduates are working in the US post college, global recognition is unimportant to the majority.

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Anonymous wrote:Huge difference. No comparison. I grew up outside the USA and no one there has heard of Vanderbilt or Wash U

Globally, the only schools that really register are Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Berkeley and NYU for some reason.

Not true. I’m Italian, worked in Germany, UK, Dubai and Tokyo over 25 years. Now in the US.

Sure the ones you mention everyone knows PLUS:

Wharton, Yale, Princeton, Michigan, UCLA, Cornell.

I dont care what anybody else here says. Outside of these 11 schools, nobody else knows much about any of the other schools….it is that simple. These command respect. Everything else is (oh…let me look at it as I dont know much about it….)

This a silly question. Ask yourself why prestige is so important to you. If your life goal is to have the average Tom, Dick, and Harry, or someone in Pakistan, go ooh and ahh then go to Harvard (and maybes one or two others). They’re not likely to be impressed by Brown, Dartmouth, or Cornell. WashU is not going to hinder you from doing what you want. Serious, thinking people have much better things to worry about. I’ve spent a summer in St Louis and like any other city it has bad neighborhoods, but overall it’s a charming, historic and affordable city.

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Anonymous wrote:Huge difference. No comparison. I grew up outside the USA and no one there has heard of Vanderbilt or Wash U

Globally, the only schools that really register are Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Berkeley and NYU for some reason.

Bucknell.

Anonymous wrote:Yuge

This

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Anonymous wrote:Wash U is more like U of Florida than the Ivies.

I’d rather send my kids to U of Florida, if that is helpful.

+1 if you have ever visited St Louis

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Anonymous wrote:Huge difference. No comparison. I grew up outside the USA and no one there has heard of Vanderbilt or Wash U

Globally, the only schools that really register are Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Berkeley and NYU for some reason.

NYU is huge, that's why

They hadn't heard about Nvidia in nearly the same way as Google or Apple though.

I'd definitely add Yale to the global list. Princeton is the one I was surprised didn't have nearly the same name recognition. Harvard and Yale are our Oxbridge. The other somewhat surprising school I'd add name recognition wise is Georgetown (the international focus of some of their strongest programs, Middle Eastern presence like NYU, and large law school LLM program have probably helped).

Anonymous wrote:Nobody heard of Nvidia and its CEO--and now it's one of the Magnificent 7.

nvidia was a big player in GPUs even 20 years ago . It may not have had the market cap, but i assure you, people heard of it.

Anonymous wrote:Huge difference. No comparison. I grew up outside the USA and no one there has heard of Vanderbilt or Wash U

Globally, the only schools that really register are Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Berkeley and NYU for some reason.