Is it time to revise the prestigiosity ratings? The original!

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<p>Only takes a few. This one goes back to 2004 <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/257984-post7.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/257984-post7.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>:) I love it.</p>

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<p>I hardly ever see an “M” in HYP, or occasionally HYPS. </p>

<p>…and really, I thought Juilliard was more selective than H, Y, P (or M) anyhow.</p>

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<p>^ That would make it JHPSY. I kinda like it…</p>

<p>Also throwing Piedmont College as the measuring stick for consideration. Schools should be measured in milliPieds.</p>

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<p>CMU’s SCS is 997 + 2.71828 mH, but the rest! Eh.</p>

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<p>Are you insinuating that I hate America, Hunt? After all the threads we’ve been through together?</p>

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<p>Well, Deresiewicz made it clear in his article that prestigiosity is way overrated and of no use to our children. In fact, Pascarella and Terenzini’s peer reviewed work showed definitively that graduates of schools in the 450-650 milliHarvard range performed as well on a host well-validated intellectual performance scales, IF NOT BETTER, than those graduates from schools in the 950+ milliHarvard category and those graduates from schools in the 450-650 milliHarvard category had FAR LESS DEBT. </p>

<p>Furthermore, articles from Drs. Barbour, Hunter, Burch and Lauren that were referenced in Vineyard and Vines book on the Cocktail Party Index are flawed and posit nothing more than straw man arguments that lack any real evidence as to the validity of the milliHarvard scale or the importance of so-called “prestigiosity”.</p>

<p>It is my child’s strategery to seek an education not for the sake of prestigiosity, but rather for the far loftier goal of dignitude.</p>

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<p>Perhaps MIT is 997 + 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679<br>
8214808651328230664709384460955058223172535940812848111745028410270193852110555964462294895493038196<br>
4428810975665933446128475648233786783165271201909145648566923460348610454326648213393607260249141273<br>
724587006606315588174881520920962829254091715364367892590360011330530548820466521384146951941511609…</p>

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<p>Certainly has a nicer ring to it than HYPS or whatever it is if you throw in the “M” ;)</p>

<p>Sadly, the big J, while not lacking in selectivity in the real world, is likely very low on the CC prestigiosity scale. I’m not sure it even has its own forum.</p>

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<p>JHPSM ?? That would work for the Colorado school of Mines</p>

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<p>^ nice one.</p>

<p>I was mistaken above, Juilliard does have its own forum here. But it is sad…very sad: [The</a> Juilliard School - College Confidential](<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/juilliard-school/]The”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/juilliard-school/)</p>

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<p>You are so yesterday, lol</p>

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<p>Sidelines, nice one. I love the cocktail party index, and “dignitude” may need its own scale (will require years of studies though).</p>

<p>Just want to amend one thing though. If Harvard is the standard on the original prestigiosity scale, it would also be the standard for financial aid and therefore might mean less debt, not more. Same for some of the others in the upper ranges of milliH’s.</p>

<p>Hunt, I got a real boost by reading your original thread. Thank you for the mood lift. I really appreciate the total irrelevance of facts to this scale. Very refreshing.</p>

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<p>I think this is my all-time favorite thread, and I just found it.</p>

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<p>Hmmm, interesting. </p>

<p>I get that Harvard = 1000 mH and is the standard, but we need a school to represent what 1 mH is to put prestigiosity in better perspective.</p>

<p>I propose that University of Phoenix = 1 mH (No offense to University of Phoenix grads)</p>

<p>My post count is low so scientific methods used to measure down to the microscopic mH may be completely wrong.</p>

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<p>MilliHarvards has a nice ring to it, although Harvard is usually used with thousands (as in annual rejections) and billions (in reference to its wallet.)</p>

<p>I do, however, think that Hunt’s post is a bit cruel. As we speak, thousands of people from Beijing to Seoul to Mumbai are anxiously googling for that elusive mercenary organization that could boost their chances in matching the prestigiosity index. </p>

<p>Oh, by the way, a school with four letters as Olin does not really need a three letter acronym. Fwiw and FYI! And some like the Western Technical Fine Arts Institute should hesitate to adopt W<em>T</em>F.</p>

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<p>I’d like to integrate an article that JHS linked to (that I can’t quite find) about what’s necessary to get into the NYTimes wedding announcements. Now that’s prestigiosity.</p>

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<p>By golly, that you can even spell the word and use it in the proper context of a sentence…</p>

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<p>xiggi, I am so yesterday. How long has it been calling itself that? </p>

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<p><a href=“Weston Career Center | WashU Olin Business School”>Error;

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Pizzagirl, I don’t suspect you of hating America, but I do suspect (based on your general attitude) that you may believe that America should get over itself.</p>

<p>I’ve heard of Olin. I think it’s probably a CC Darling.</p>