<p>PSU is an excellent school and an excellent value. With that said, is it considered in the same prestige class as Harvard, Princeton, etc? No.</p>
<p>Prestige by definition is: "The level of respect at which one is regarded by others; standing."</p>
<p>That is, it is defined by what someone and the public perceives it to be. For instance other Asian parents and students.</p>
<p>Some prestige is based on facts. Some of it is a myth. Certainly the challenge is to separate the fact from the fiction.</p>
<p>Props to all Asians regardless of the institution you attend.</p>
<p>Long after you graduate and are working in the real world, where you attended college will matter less, replaced by the importance of your character.</p>
<p>University of Michigan? University of Michigan has business?</p>
<p>That would be my mom's reponse.</p>
<p>Few of my mom's quotes:</p>
<p>"Is Swarthmore a good school?"
"Why is Columbia sending you stuff?" (not "Columbia sent you stuff!!!)
"USC is a crap school."
"Syracuse is a third tier university too."
"Michigan..UCLA..Georgetown..Tufts..go to Georgetown! It's the best one."
"What are you going to do with an econ degree? Teach?"
"Only econ and business majors can become bankers. History majors end up becoming teachers or historians." (<strong><em>? weird. She was a language major who became a banker.)
"You can get you MBA after you become a teacher."
"What's Wharton?" (This seriously made me laugh my butt off.)
"Carnegie Mellon has undergrad business? I thought it was good for the arts."
"You know college is going to cost $60k if you don't get financial aid." (what?)
"NYU Law School? I've never heard of it."
"Since you can't get into UC's cuz you got a couple C's, you might as well go to the University of Michigan..."(</em></strong>?)
"If you don't go to med school, you'll end up homeless."
"MBA's are useless, even if they're from Harvard."
"You should become a doctor because they make a ton of money."
"You might major science in college, so why are you taking AP Enviro?" (At this point, we already settled that I'm going to do business.)</p>
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"If you don't go to med school, you'll end up homeless."
"MBA's are useless, even if they're from Harvard."
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<p>HAHAHAHAHA OMG your mother cracks me up (especially the first one) Well, I'm going to USC and I never heard of it until... a month before I turned in my application.. cough</p>
<p>UCLAri, in our modern day context, fresh off board makes a lot more sense, as i said before, not many Asian immigrants can row themselves from Asia to the US, and ive definitely heard from a number of people that it is "fresh off board"</p>
<p>"Where's Claremont McKenna?"
"Economics is math." (hmm...I don't know last time I looked Econ was a social science)
"87 in math? How could you? Now you're a failure at life." (I'm like it's not that bad...I mean if I factor in homework grades I have an A- in the class, and I'm still in recovery mode from the class I dropped...precal Honors...the teacher was the devil)</p>