<p>Now obviously it's no Ivy, but let's say I go there, and graduate with a masters in business marketing (what I'm really interested in right now), would future employers looks at it like "oh, he went there", or would it be more like "Oh wow, he went there :D"?</p>
<p>I'm no Ivy material, so that's not an option. But I have a 3.88 GPA, honors and AP classes under my belt, and I'm taking the SAT soon which I think I can get a decent score on.</p>
<p>But yeah, prestige does matter to me :)</p>
<p>No. It’s not. 10 char</p>
<p>It depends on what you mean by ‘prestige’. </p>
<p>UW is one of the ‘public ivies’ and has an excellent reputation. U.S. News ranks it at # 41 among national universities.</p>
<p>Of course, I am prejudiced (MAT '77, PhD '78).</p>
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<p>No, it’s not.</p>
<p>From Wikipedia:</p>
<p>The original eight Public Ivies</p>
<p>The original eight Public Ivies as they were listed by Moll in 1985:[2]
College of William & Mary (Williamsburg, Virginia)
Miami University (Oxford, Ohio)
University of California (campuses as of 1985)[6]
University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of Texas at Austin
University of Vermont (Burlington)
University of Virginia (Charlottesville)</p>
<p>[edit] The worthy runners-up</p>
<p>Moll also offered in the same book “a list of worthy runners-up” and brief summaries of them:[7]
University of Colorado at Boulder
Georgia Institute of Technology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
New College of the University of South Florida (Now New College of Florida)
Pennsylvania State University at University Park
University of Pittsburgh
State University of New York at Binghamton (also called Binghamton University)
University of Washington at Seattle
University of WisconsinMadison</p>
<p>Depends on your profession. If you’re applying to Goldman Sachs or Allen & Overy then no.</p>
<p>Apparently, you did not read the entire Wikipedia article. In any case, your comments are not very helpful to the OP.</p>
<p>If by ‘prestige’ he means Ivy League+Stanford+MIT or top LACs (Amherst, Williams, Swarthmore, Middlebury), then by definition UW is not prestigious. If he is referring to academic reputation, then he can be assured that UW is an excellent choice.</p>
<p>If you are in a honours program on some type then possibly. For example, Morehead Schloars at UNC are really really prestigious… But standard UW not particularly no, but it’s more about what you do when you’re there than the name of the school itself.</p>
<p>It’s got a better vibe than most of the prestigious schools but no, in terms of academics, its not that amazing with the exception of CS</p>
<p>It depends on what field. Harvard is not prestigious in engineering, but MIT is.</p>
<p>You won’t go anywhere much better for medical but I live in washington and it’s not that great… a lot of dumb people from our school get in too</p>
<p>Dumb people really ruin your education.</p>
<p>That’s why people want to go to Harvard.</p>
<p>you havent gone through undergrad yet, so how do you know who wont get into an Ivy/Elite for your masters degree?</p>
<p>^^There’s dumb people at Harvard too. Money can get you places.</p>
<p>It’s a solid school. Nothing to write home about.</p>
<p>In-state kids have a lot easier chance of getting in.
I’m applying to it as my instate backup, and I wouldn’t be sad at all if I ended up having to go. It’s a good school.</p>
<p>Is in the top 20 according to US news? No? Then it’s not. /sarcasm</p>
<p>I just mean can the name get me anywhere in life, or is it no better than going to a community college?</p>
<p>Any University is better than a community college. I wouldn’t say it’s prestigious, but the name won’t give you any benefits if thats what you’re thinking.
Go Dawgs!</p>
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<p>Precisely.</p>
<p>UWashington is top-10 in Statistics, Computer Science, Applied Math, Atmospheric Science, Astronomy, and a number of other programs. Research-wise, it ranks higher than almost all public universities other than Berkeley, Michigan, and UCLA. For astrobiology, it is actually the top institution. </p>
<p>Also, it gets a massive influx of talent from early entrance students, who win a huge proportion of the undergraduate awards. There is really no other public university that gets this influx of them.</p>
<p>If you want to do research that’s computational in nature (and computation-based research is the future for A LOT of fields), there really aren’t many universities that are better than Washington (you really won’t find many other schools that are top-3 in Applied Math, CS, AND statistics)</p>
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<p>Also, the honors students here aren’t really that impressive, and the honors courses here have a hugely postmodernist bent (you can’t find many academic courses in there)</p>