College Rankings On Lay Prestige

College Search & Selection
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As a current student at a top east coast (northeast) prep school, applying to colleges next year:

Harvard
Stanford
Yale
MIT
Princeton

Columbia/Penn
UChicago
Brown/Dartmouth
Duke
Cornell

Northwestern
Hopkins
Georgetown

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Harvard
Stanford
Yale
Princeton
MIT

Columbia
Chicago
Penn

Northwestern
Duke
Dartmouth

Brown
Cornell
Johns Hopkins

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Harvard
Princeton

Stanford

Yale

UChicago / Columbia specialty elites : MIT/Cal Tech/ West Point

Duke/ Penn/ Hopkins

Berkeley/ Michigan

Dartmouth/ NU/ Brown

Cornell

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Stanford
Cal - Pomona
Cal Tech
MIT
Harvard
other ivies

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I’ll tell you the ranking from 2 different segments of the HS here in Fl

Athletes

Alabama

Ohio St.

FSU

USC

UF

LSU

Miami

Clemson

Georgia

Michigan

Oklahoma

Auburn

Notre Dame

UCLA

Penn St

Stanford

Tennessee

Nebraska

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Top academic students

     Harvard
     Stanford
     Princeton
     MIT
     PENN
     Columbia
     Dartmouth
     Duke
     Cal Tech
     Yale
     UChicago
     UF
    Cornell
    Michigan
    Northwestern
    Hopkins
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On prestige alone, from the east coast perspective:

Harvard
Princeton
Yale
Stanford
MIT
Columbia
Dartmouth
Penn
Duke
Brown
Cornell

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Dartmouth and Duke ahead of cal tech, Yale and chicago ??!

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@Chrchill

Here at least yes. Not how I would rank them. Many look at Dartmouth as a LA school with Ivy prestige. Duke I can’t explain but Cal Tech is limited to engineering and UChicago too rigorous in their eyes.

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Huh? I quote “Top academic students”. Why does being too rigorous negatively impact that

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@reuynshard See Harvard…notoriously hard to get in but easy A “typically” after. Kids want high GPA especially if moving on from undergrad. Now this doesn’t apply to every student and everybody is different but overall it is the predominant sentiment of the top end kids.

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^^^Not to mention the rep UChicago has for “The place where fun comes to die”. Not a good combination in kids eyes.