<p>In order of prestige, which 10 schools in the country are at the top? i.e. which are the schools with the biggest "dude!" factor?</p>
<p>example:
"Where do you go to school?"
"Harvard"
"Dude!!!"</p>
<p>List the schools you think are the Top 10 in national recognition and prestige. Do not list smaller LACs that may be among the best schools nationwide, but that no one has ever heard of, stick to the major universities.</p>
<p>hehe i'd say...</p>
<ol>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>Duke</li>
<li>Berkeley</li>
<li>Northwestern/Notre Dame</li>
<li>Cornell/Dartmouth</li>
</ol>
<p>I've seen this post about 1,000 times, but I'm bored so whatever. Here goes. National recogniton and prestige:</p>
<p>1) Harvard
2)Yale
3)Princeton
4)Stanford
5)MIT
6)Columbia
7)Duke
8)Berkeley
9)Cornell
10)Georgetown/Dartmouth/Penn/Brown</p>
<p>yawn... this has got to be the 13,243,251,564,265,432,543,216,434,253,132th post about this exact same thing</p>
<p>Dang, look how close our lists are. Posted at the same time!</p>
<ol>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>Duke</li>
<li>Northwestern</li>
<li>Berkeley/Notre Dame (depending upon whether you're hanging out with conservatives or liberals...)</li>
</ol>
<ol>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>Penn</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>Duke</li>
<li>Brown</li>
<li>Georgetown</li>
</ol>
<p>Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Duke, Georgetown, NYU, MIT, Dartmouth, and Columbia. Not in any particular order.</p>
<p>i think MIT is above stanford...you dont have to know a thing about colleges and can stlil recognize MIT as the best...overall i would say
Harvard
Yale
MIT
Princeton
Penn
Columbia
Stanford
Dartmouth
Cornell
Georgetown</p>
<p>i personally wouldnt rank the schools that way, but i think those are the ones in that order that impress people</p>
<p>I think Stanford is even higher in the West.</p>
<p>what about Hopkins, how does that not strach the top 10 when people who go bio or premed often pick that over many ivies even when they have the choice</p>
<ol>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>Georgetown</li>
<li>Swarthmore</li>
<li>Military Academies (definitely rank on the "dude" scale but possibly for a different reason)</li>
<li>Amherst</li>
</ol>
<p>Re Hopkins admits who have the choice: # 28 in the Revealed Preference Survey</p>
<p>Yes, but many people haven't heard of it. </p>
<p>IMO, only about 8 colleges really get the "WOW!" factor. In other words, these are the prestigious colleges that everyone's heard of. </p>
<p>Caltech
Cornell
Columbia
Harvard
MIT
Princeton
Stanford
Yale</p>
<p>Why am I the only one to have included Caltech?</p>
<p>Swarthmore? Amherst? Are those toothpaste brands? Insurance companies?</p>
<p>A Revealed Preference Ranking of Colleges
rank College Name Elo pts
1 Harvard 2800
2 Yale 2738
3 Stanford 2694
4 Cal Tech 2632
5 MIT 2624
6 Princeton 2608
7 Brown 2433
8 Columbia 2392
9 Amherst 2363
10 Dartmouth 2357
11 Wellesley 2346
12 U Penn 2325
13 U Notre Dame 2279
14 Swarthmore 2270
15 Cornell 2236
16 Georgetown 2218
17 Rice 2214
18 Williams 2213
19 Duke 2209
20 U Virginia 2197
21 Northwestern 2136
22 Pomona 2132
23 Berkeley 2115
24 Georgia Tech 2115
25 Middlebury 2114
26 Wesleyan 2111
27 U Chicago 2104
28 Johns Hopkins 2096
29 USC 2072</p>
<p>G&S, the toothpaste college is Colgate. :p</p>
<p>I knew one of those little suckers was a toothpaste college.</p>
<p>These lists are so generic, and boring.... Does it REALLY MATTER????? </p>
<p>As far as being applauded or disgraced for my college, I like to refer to the lyrics of one of my favorite band's--which portrays my attitude about the college prestige game:</p>
<p>"I understand about indecision
But I don't care if I get behind
People livin' in competition
All I want is to have my peace of mind. </p>
<p>Now you're climbin' to the top of the company ladder
Hope it doesn't take too long
Can'tcha you see there'll come a day when it won't matter
Come a day when you'll be gone"</p>
<p>--Boston</p>
<p>"Come a day when you'll be gone"</p>
<p>What does this mean? They we will all be dead someday, so why bother about anything?</p>