<p>I never hear of Dartmouth but I do very often of Columbia (in CA)</p>
<p>Whenever I mention Johns Hopkins to some average joe, they're like "I thought that was a hospital." Whenever I mention Chicago they're like "Oh, okay. The state university there, right?" And whenever I mention Washington U in St. L. to someone, they're like, "Oh...where in Washington state is St. Louis?" And Penn, they're like "Oh, Penn State, they have an amazing football team!"</p>
<p>where's the love for tufts guys????</p>
<p>Once again, the OP did not include Tufts in the list. But, if the OP did, Tufts would be in last place for prestige most likely.</p>
<p>I would put Tufts before WUStL definitely, and maybe even ahead of Berkeley and/or Northwestern- as we are doing this from a regional perspective. Tufts garners a lot of respect in metro Boston and even more in New York, where its reputation isn't so immediately overshadowed by the local juggernaut of Harvard/MIT/Wellesley.</p>
<p>Tufts ahead of Northwestern? I’m sure Tufts is known in metro Boston and New York, but I don’t see how or why Tufts would have a better rep than Northwestern, especially in New York.</p>
<p>Average Asians Perspective</p>
<ol>
<li> Harvard, Yale</li>
<li> MIT, Stanford, Columbia, Berkeley</li>
<li> JHU (medicine), Princeton(theology), Penn (Business), Juliard/Peobody/Curtis/NEC, Parsons</li>
</ol>
<p>:rolleyes:</p>
<p>kk- It has to do with Tufts' larger alumni network on the East Coast, plus its affiliation with some non-collegiate things, like its medical and IR schools- so there are a lot of people on Tufts Health Plan, have doctors educated there, and a lot of foreign dignitaries go and speak at Tufts, and its reputation is consequently inflated among easterners. </p>
<p>Also, people who apply to Ivies will apply to Tufts as a safety despite "Tufts Syndrome," and its grouping among their choices affects people's perceptions of it.</p>
<p>Average Asian’s Perspectives on major study/programs</p>
<p>Law – Harvard, Yale
Business- Harvard, Penn
Medicine –Harvard, JHU
Engineering – MIT, Stanford
Music –Julliard, Peabody
Art/Design – Parsons
Politics – Harvard, Columbia
Economics – Harvard, MIT
History/Sociology/what-nots – Harvard, Yale
All sciences – Harvard, Berkeley
Religion (aspiring pastors) - Princeton
:rolleyes:</p>
<p>That list is random.....</p>
<p>Yeah, I know</p>
<p>This is what I would rank</p>
<p>Northwestern - Journalism ( top of tops), Engineering, Kellogg</p>
<p>Happy? :)</p>
<p>Oh please, I have no bias…. I surely do not let my esteem fluctuate with how often people on CC rank my school… :rolleyes:</p>
<p>-I just think that list is random. Like Parsons and no RISD or Pratt? Stanford Engineering???? :rolleyes:</p>
<p>I also don't know how to qualify how "average Asians" think....</p>
<p>Yeah, interesting how different the rankings by "average Asians" are...</p>
<p>hehe, by popular demand</p>
<p>My expanded list (a tad bit knowledgeable than average Wang)</p>
<p>Law – Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Columbia, Berkeley
Business- Harvard, Penn, Stanford, MIT, Kellogg, Columbia, Chicago
Medicine –Harvard, JHU, WashU@SL
Engineering – MIT, Stanford, Berkeley
Music –Julliard, Peabody, Curtis, U of Indiana, NEC
Art/Design – Parsons/UCLA/NYU/USC
Politics – Harvard, Columbia, Princeton, Yale, Stanford, Berkeley
Economics – Chicago, Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Yale, Princeton, Berkeley
Liberal Arts/Social Studies: HPYSChicagoAWS, Berkeley
Sciences: Caltech, MIT, HPY, Stanford, Berkeley
Journalism: Northwestern, Columbia</p>
<p>:rolleyes:</p>
<p>in the northeast, tufts EASILY trumps northwestern, chicago, rice, wustl, berkeley, and caltech in terms of name recognition.</p>
<p>In some circles perhaps? But i-bankers are much more familiar with Chicago and Northwestern - and Berkeley for that matter.</p>
<p>" in the northeast, tufts EASILY trumps northwestern, chicago, rice, wustl, berkeley, and caltech in terms of name recognition."</p>
<p>-Like I said, save a few schools, namely Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT, Stanford, and to a lesser extent, Duke, most schools are regional. Other than those schools, I dont see any of the top schools being nationally recognized, at least not as recognized as they are in their respective areas.</p>
<p>Columbia is highly recognized on both coasts (and to a growing extent in Texas) but falters substantially in the middle of the country. I guess it could be called bi- or tri-regional .</p>
<p>The World-Class School (World-Prestige)</p>
<p>Harvard-MIT-Berkeley-Stanford-Yale-Columbia</p>
<p>Indeed, Princeton suffers from its lack of professional schools and not-so-high-profile graduate schools. And Mangredman is right that most average people associate Princeton’s name with the totally different Princeton Seminary School.</p>
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Garr, how are you from NH or CT but put Dartmouth below Chicago and Cornell at the bottom?
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<p>I am from CT, but I go to Dartmouth (which I did put above Chicago). At my HS, Cornell was generally considered to be the ivy you applied to if you really wanted to say you go to an ivy league school but couldn't get into any of the others (btw, this is NOT my opinion, just the general perception of prestige from my area - I tried to put them in order of how impressed a normal person from my town would be if you said "I go to ______").</p>