<p>because your other posts indicate you're not looking for objective fact by fact comparisons, and because your question is extremely vague and nonspecific, i'll just lay out an equally nonspecific, but well-established subjective comparison...</p>
<p>old school blue-blooded new englanders, prep schoolers, and (ironically) private-schooled manhattenites seem to think brown is more prestigious. to those truly in the know, they are neck-in-neck, so much so that columbia has made recent attempts to start a formal rivalry. for the rest of the world, they will either have never heard of either school or won't make distinctions between schools in the ivy league</p>