<p>i agree mostly with golubb_u rankings
except cornell isnt that well known as a great school is it</p>
<p>i agree with kosuke</p>
<p>Here on the East Coast, I don't think Stanford impresses as many people as Harvard, Yale, MIT, or Princeton does. And Caltech is hardly even known.</p>
<p>I agree with kosuke all the way too.</p>
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<p>Harvard MIT Princeton Stanford/Yale Cornell, Columbia Dartmouth, Brown, Upenn Berkeley, Duke U-chig, Caltech, Northwestern (all good schools, but not known) UCLA, UMAA (michigan-ann-arbor) Georgetown, Emory, WUSTL UCSD, William+Mary, Other UCs, Amherst, Williams, Swarthmore (sorry, LACs are not a good as unis)</p>
<p>Science-oriented schools are always more prestigious than arts-schools....most of the Ivies are science+arts, so they obviously have an edge. golubb_u is offline
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<p>Hold up!. This thread is referring to the "presitge ranking" of colleges, yet you somehow believe this is directly related to "how good" a school is (hence your justifcation of putting LACs at the bottom because "LACs are not a good as unis"). think.</p>
<p>ivybound1010 ....your right, Cornell is better than umich but im biased bc my whole family has gone to Umich and i live right near ann arbor and will be attending next fall.....and i forgot dartmouth in my rankings, it would be around 9th or 10th</p>
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"Don't forget that Harvard and Yale have been quite active in sending out marketing materials to drum up apps. Princeton is still considering whether it wants to get into the marketing business."</p>
<p>Not true. I got the same amount of mail from Princeton and Harvard. Two pieces from each, one small letter, and one brochure/application. Ironically, I didn't get anything from Yale, my top choice, until I solicited it. But to be fair, I visited Yale in early summer and they might have sent me stuff without me asking for it anyway.</p>
<p>People spend so much time on this board quibbling about little prestige differences among the very top schools, HYPSMC, when the whole situation is very simple.</p>
<p>Nothing beats Harvard for pure, unadultured prestige. Yale and Stanford come close, but aren't quite there. Then comes Princeton. MIT and Caltech are funny; their prestige varies on the circle you're in, and your location. Honestly, I think the NBER stats have it, as far as prestige goes.</p>
<p>Prestige is not neccesarily a measure of quality. While Harvard rises above its competitors in terms of prestige, Harvard is not intrinsically better than YPSMC. I've said this a thousand times, but I'll say it again: once schools get as good as HYPSMC, small differences in prestige become irrelevant, and it comes down to personal preferences.
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<p>agreed....mostly. although I question how good many ivies are in comparison to other schools in terms of undergraduate experience(such as columbia). I think that Dartmouth/Princeton possibly Harvard have the greatest concentration on undergrad.</p>
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<p>I'll say it again. Do not confuse "prestige" with the quality of the school!!!. It is asinine ,taking a sheep mentality and is NOT the topic of discussion.</p>
<p>personally I think Harvard has the LEAST concentration on undergrad of all the Ivies, but I agree with Dartmouth/Princeton having the most (Yale is a close third).</p>
<p>College_hopeful, actually I should not have said Harvard as I really don't know much about it, however I have researched Dartmouth and Princeton much more.</p>
<ol>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>Caltech</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
<li>UPenn</li>
<li>Brown</li>
<li>Duke</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>Berkeley</li>
</ol>
<p>Allow me to make up my own list.</p>
<ol>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>Caltech</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>UPenn</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>Brown</li>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
<li>Duke</li>
<li>Williams</li>
<li>Chicago</li>
<li>J. Hopkins</li>
<li>Northwestern</li>
<li>Rice </li>
<li>Washington U in St. Louis</li>
</ol>
<p>Why do all of you ignore Princeton when it has alternately been ranked the best university alongside with harvard by the U.S. News???</p>
<p>columbia for some reason is not that prestigious on the rankings (top 3 or so) but its always ranked that high in hardest ivy to get into - i saw it on some other threads</p>
<p>i believe colubmia should be up there idk maybe just cuz im from the city</p>
<p>ivybound1010, if that is not the stupidest user name I've ever heard of.</p>
<p>thanks a lot @s.shol.e
oh i mean texas "mathwhiz" rofl</p>
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<p>even though princeton is ranked as the top school a number of times, it cant touch harvard/yale/mit/stanford in prestige. majority of people just dont know princeton is that good =P</p>
<p>prestigious:
1. Umiami
2. USC
3. maybe stanford, but i doubt it.</p>
<p>internationally
1. harvard, stanford
2. yale, mit, princeton
3. berkeley, penn, dartmouth, brown, cornell</p>
<p>My own prestige ranking (on behalf of Science stream elite students LOL!!):
1. Harvard
2. MIT/Caltech
3. Stanford
4. Princeton
5. Berkeley
6. Yale
7. Cornell
8. the rest</p>
<p>you think cornell is more prestigious than the top liberal arts colleges? that's interesting</p>