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<p>Well, we could start a Brown-Rice index which measures college students’ preferred intoxicating substance.</p>
<p>Brown Harvard is actually my favorite, but I’m probably in the minority.</p>
<p>An elite school loses prestigiousity points when kids turn it down for a College That Changes Lives. Same school loses points when kids turn it down for a free ride to a state U NOT IN THEIR OWN STATE which is apparently “just as good” as elite U. Same school loses points if a kid at some time in recorded history went to said school and either did not get into every med school they applied to, or ended up sitting on Mom’s couch in the basement (even if it was only for half an hour. Kid went to elite school, ended up sitting on a couch.)</p>
<p>If it’s MY kid who ends up admitted to that elite school with adequate or even generous financial aid… well, forget what I just said@</p>
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<p>Ah, but what about the kid’s prestigiosity? After all, what’s more prestigious – getting into Harvard, or getting into Harvard and saying no thank you?</p>
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<p>Oh, we could be serious for a short instant, and agree that Alabama should be everyone’s favorite safety school, in addition to being a pollster’s perennial darling.</p>
<p>Now, let’s go back to having fun. And with this, let me suggest that the true test of prestigiosity of a school should be measured in the ability of its fans to resist Xiggi’s multiple quips and zingers.</p>
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<p>The problem with that…is that you can’t tell anyone, “I got into Harvard but I didn’t go” without sounding like you made it up, or even worse, douch-y. So, if no one knows, the prestigiousity is squandered.</p>
<p>Sort of a lost prestigiousity opportunity.</p>
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There was a film about Duke’s admission process – “The Searchers”.</p>
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<p>AND don’t appear on Mini’s list of schools with binge drinking problems :-0</p>
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<p>Turning it down is definitely higher on the kid’s prestigiousity scale but leaves Harvard’s scale untouched because it’s mentioned in the context of the unbelievableness of turning it down.</p>
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<p>As in, “At the pinko-lefty-granola-eating-gender-bending LAC I attended in Ohio in the 1990s, we’d have ostracized you for owning, much less wearing, clean underwear”?</p>
<p>Is it a confirmation of prestigiousity if CC has gone out on a limb and named the school one of “our” favorites?</p>
<p>[CC</a> Top Universities - College Confidential](<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/cc-top-universities/]CC”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/cc-top-universities/)</p>
<p>absmarie did that lac start with an O or an A?</p>
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<p>One kid at my son’s school with an ACT in the 20’s and nowhere near the top of his class starting telling teachers and students he got into Yale, but decided to go to a 3rd tier school instead. No one in the counselors’ office could find data of anyone getting into Yale, but a couple of teachers suddenly starting telling their classes en masse that they should apply to Yale. This is the sort of thing that goes on in most high schools – the staff has absolutely no clue on how competitive admissions is to elite schools these days!</p>
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<p>The one that starts with an “O” is the one I had in mind.</p>
<p>My brother went to the one that starts with an A that went away for awhile and is now back…I’d say definitely higher granola scale rating.</p>
<p>However the prestigiousity rating for the “O” is significantly higher, I’d wager ;)</p>
<p>I’d like to add an corollary: The more cousins you have with an opinion, the more sure you can be in your prestigiosity rankings.</p>
<p>If Hunt includes an element of uniqueness in his scientific PI, I’d wager that the new AntiKoch College must get an off-the-scale boost. After all, how many can claim to attend a school that rose from the death! Spookylicious!</p>
<p>Indeed, OHMomof2. But “A” doesn’t have as vocal a representative on College Confidential as “O” does.</p>
<p>That’s because only like 50 people attended “A” ;)</p>
<p>I get ya. Pizza, I get ya too.</p>