<p>Overall prestige isn’t too important to me, but prestige in my desired field of study is what I’m looking for</p>
<p>Prestige sort of comes and goes in my house. It’s of moderate importance. I think my parents would like me to attend a prestigious school (they both did, as well as my sisters) but as long as I find a school that I’m confident will give me a good education I think they’ll be OK. There are some schools they said I may not attend, but those were schools I was just paging through something.</p>
<p>Prestige is pretty important to me, but the college must be a good fit also.</p>
<p>Fairly important</p>
<p>Prestige does not matter to me at all. However, a few of the tangible effects that can arguably be traced to prestige do. That’s why I consider job recruitment and placement statistics very carefully.</p>
<p>At the same time, I think that students who have good numbers and play their financial cards right will ultimately have to make their choice on a somewhat arbitrary basis. If oohs and ahs from high school classmates you will never see again do it for you, so be it.</p>
<p>Sadly, it matters quite a bit to me - as it seems like prestige is linked directly to connections you’ll have after college.</p>
<p>Instead of prestige, I gave more importance to the departmental strength of a college which contained my major. I researched campus recruiting for graduates of my major, the support service, and other factors such as location which necessarily does NOT correlates with “prestige.”</p>
<p>Prestige means nothing to be. I’m basing my decision solely on the atmosphere and fit; I’m choosing the place where I believe I will be happiest for four years. Even if I were accepted to one of my reach schools, there is a good chance I would choose to attend one of my safeties. I go to boarding school, so naturally there is a huge focus on prestige and name brands - however, I really don’t understand why people care. I would never want to spend four years somewhere that I didn’t truly want to be just so I can go around saying “Yeah, I go to [insertnameofprestigiousinstitutionhere].” (I understand that that there are many people who have completely legitimate reasons for choosing a prestigious school, and I am not criticizing them; it is just that I too frequently see people choosing a school just for the name.)</p>
<p>I’ve spent the last year of my life having panic attacks about getting into college. But honestly, even if I got accepted to one of the “top” colleges, I would turn it down for two reasons:</p>
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<li><p>Cost. Unlike a lot of people on here, my parents aren’t going to shell out 35-50 grand per year when I could get a free ride at a state school. However, we are not poor, so forget getting any financial aid. I’d prefer to leave college debt-free, thank you very much.</p></li>
<li><p>I don’t really see the appeal in going to a college where everyone is uber competitive and almost cutthroat. Face it, the Ivy Leagues are chock-full of snobby prep-school kids, and frankly I would like some more diversity than most private schools offer.</p></li>
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<p>So, even if I got accepted to an Ivy (which I wouldn’t), I would turn it down. Sorry, but I’d rather be happy than spending all my time trying to get into the “best” universities.</p>
<p>Prestige helps a lot for the career path I’m interested in so it’s pretty important to me.</p>
<p>Prestige is important for certain careers, and also the prestige of certain departments you’re interested in. But with lower costs, an environment which is less competitive, and the fact that graduate school admissions don’t place heavy weight on where you went to college, less prestigious universities seem like great options as well.</p>
<p>Well, yeah, I guess it matters.
It matters to me less now, but still the idea of going to a college nobody has ever heard of makes me cringe just a little.</p>
<p>Didn’t matter to me one bit. My parents and friends have never even heard of some of the most prestigious schools - so choosing a college for the purpose of bragging from my end or from my family’s end could never have been a factor. And I’m a nursing major, the only thing that matters as a nurse is that you passed the NCLEX and that you can do your job well.</p>
<p>Being Korean, yes. This is most likely the most “Korean” thing about me. I hate the taste of kimchi and the smell of it.</p>