<p>“If you ignore the %s and look at it as a ranking, the two are extremely similar. I would think you’d like the results, since Duke does pretty well in both.”</p>
<p>I’m sure this the part of the survey that goldenboy doesn’t like:</p>
<p>From that same poll:</p>
<p>"What about post-graduates themselves, who might be expected to know better than others what schools are prestigious, given that they applied to schools at least twice (for undergraduate and graduate work) and most likely spent a good deal of time evaluating schools? Here’s the list of schools most often mentioned by college graduates with at least some post-graduate education:</p>
<p>Vandy is extremely prestigious for academics. Notre Dame is known for football, not so much for academics. Georgetown is also prestigious (even more so than ND in my opinion), and Emory and Rice are unfortunately not well-known at all.</p>
Eh, I’m not so attached to my alma mater that I’m going to base my entire perception of a study on that. I just like learning about colleges and analyzing data sets.:D</li>
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<p>I’m wondering how UCLA does so well on all these reputational rankings; it has strong PhD programs but so do like 20 other schools, it has low selectivity, a small endowment, average professional schools (relative to the rest of the top universities), a so-so undergraduate reputation, and is not seen as a particularly “high prestige” school in the East Coast thought undoubtedly it is thought of that way in California. I wonder if the relative paucity of world-class universities west of the Mississippi compared to the East elevates the reputation of UCLA.</p>