<p>Northern California Percieved "Wow!" Factor:
1) Harvard
2) Stanford
3) MIT
4) Yale
5) Princeton
6) Brown
7) Caltech
8) Columbia
9) Dartmouth ("that's an Ivy, right?")
10) Cornell
11) Duke
12) Berkeley
13) Penn ("is that public?")
14) JHU
15) U Chicago
16) Northwestern ("where's that?")
17) WUSTL ("that's a school?")</p>
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people who actually matter (ie employers)
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<p>That also varies. A lot of people on CC seem to regard the people who matter as "professors and graduate school admission officers." However, if you're talking about employers and the work world, the list is a lot different. They would be more concerned with business schools (MBA) rankings and possibly engineering department rankings and the US News undergraduate rankings instead of "graduate school (PhD) rankings."</p>
<p>For example, UPenn would probably be in the top 3 or 5.</p>
<p>Let me give you another NJ perspective on prestige...it differs from Tony.</p>
<p>Harvard/Princeton
Yale
Stanford
MIT
UPenn
Columbia
Cornell
Duke
Brown
Dartmouth
Caltech
Chicago
Northwestern
Berkeley
WUSTL
JHU</p>
<p>To the guy who said that JHU is "only known for medicine" JHU is well known in other fields. International Relations, Public Health, Art History, Writing Seminars, BME and others.</p>
<p>Oh and my rankings ;)
H, P
Y
Stan.
MIT, Caltech
Columbia
UPenn
Duke, UChicago, JHU, Brown, Dartmouth, Cornell
Berkeley, WUSTLY</p>
<p>same line == tie or almost tie. (I'm from CA)</p>
<p>Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Stanford
MIT
Caltech
UPenn
Columbia
Cornell
Berkeley
Chicago
Northwestern
Duke
Brown
Dartmouth
Johns Hopkins
WUSTL </p>
<p>...from Korea. The schools with strong graduate programs are well-known.</p>
<p>Harvard
Yale
Princeton
MIT
Stanford
Columbia
Caltech
UPenn
Dartmouth & Duke
Johns Hopkins & Cornell
Brown
Chicago
Berkeley
Northwestern
Notre Dame</p>
<p>Florida :)</p>
<p>My experience:</p>
<p>Harvard/ Yale/Princeton/Stanford/ MIT
Caltech
Columbia/Duke/ Dartmouth/Brown/ Penn
Cornell/ Chicago/ Northwestern/ Johns Hopkins
Rice/ Berkeley/ WUSTL</p>
<p>your common man's ranking :rolleyes:</p>
<ol>
<li>H, Y, P, S</li>
<li>MIT, Columbia, Upenn, Duke</li>
<li>meh, whatever</li>
</ol>
<p>Penn and Columbia for the common man? ... Please.... :rolleyes:</p>
<p>From Hong Kong, </p>
<p>Harvard
Stanford
MIT
Yale
Princeton
Berkeley
Columbia/CalTech
UPenn/Cornell/Chicago/Northwestern
Duke
Brown/Dartmouth/Johns Hopkins
WUSTL</p>
<p>hehehe, well per my GC (20 years of experience)</p>
<p>HYPS for the very best.</p>
<p>Top of the class who couldnt quite make it to HYPS (due to an infinitetesimal deficiency or bad luck i dont know) ended up at MIT, Columbia, Upenn, Duke.</p>
<p>So according to her, you need every thing plus alpha for HYPS :rolleyes:</p>
<p>It is funny, when you mention you want to go to Chicago to an average person, they think it is some dumpy public school. When you mention it to a above-average educated person, they know it is prestigous, but they have no idea what why. When you mention it to someone in Acadamia, their eyes light up.</p>
<p>So according to her.</p>
<p>there is a fine barrier between HYPS and the rest.
And she said the college adcoms could more often than not distinguish those top of cremes? :rolleyes:</p>
<p>White Rabbit, I think that is the point of most of these posts: schools like Caltech and Chicago have undeservedly poor prestige in the eyes of, well, unprestigious people. Penn, Brown, and Dartmouth also tend to be forgotten by the same crowd who thinks MIT and Stanford are Ivy League schools. It's a crazy world out there.</p>
<p>HYPSM
Columbia, Duke, Dartmouth, Penn, Brown
Cornell, NU, Chicago</p>
<p>Of course, all of those are "wow, nerd" schools</p>
<p>Are we talking about prestige amongst general public or in the business world, b/c if we're talking about general public, Berkeley should be high and Chicago + CalTech + Northwestern are under a rock with Northwestern just barely creeping out.</p>
<p>Garr, how are you from NH or CT but put Dartmouth below Chicago and Cornell at the bottom?</p>
<p>So, far, I think Columbia2007 is closests, btw, I have not met an average Joe that hasn't heard the name Cornell. In terms of Ivys name-status on the West Coast, I never heard Dartmouth or Columbia ever mention. Brown & UPenn were rarities. It was all HPY + Cornell.</p>
<p>Um... Georgetown, anyone? :p</p>
<p>Well, the OP didn't specifically ask about Georgetown, which is why it has been left out.</p>
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In terms of Ivys name-status on the West Coast, I never heard Dartmouth or Columbia ever mention.
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<p>And yet 50% of the student body at Columbia is from Washington or California...which also has some of the university's largest alumni societies (in LA and SF...after New York, New England and maybe London)...go figure.</p>