<p>:O! typo! prestigious* -__<em>- (okay so now that ive pointed out my typo, no one else needs to bring it up -</em>- )</p>
<p>And this doesnt even have to be based on the USNews rankings.
what 5-10 schools, in your opinion, are prestigious yet non-ivy.
and this is for all-around undergrad.</p>
<p>US only :)</p>
<p>We all know about MIT and Stanford, try not to repeat those again and again.</p>
<p>Stanford, MIT, Duke, Chicago, Caltech</p>
<p>I’m assuming we’re doing US only? Otherwise, Oxbridge obvi.</p>
<p>MIT
Stanford
UChicago
Northwestern (note my Midwest bias :D)
Caltech</p>
<p>Emory, Carnegie Mellon, Berkeley, UCLA, Rice.</p>
<p>JHU
Vandy
Georgetown
UF
Ga Tech</p>
<p>Bloody CC and it’s Ivy obsession…</p>
<p>Chicago, Caltech, MIT, Stanford, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Carnegie Mellon, Amherst, Reed, Middlebury, Harvey Mudd, UMich-AA, UVA, UNC, Washington St. Louis, Notre Dame, Emory, Vandy, Rice, Georgetown, UCLA, Cal. And of course Oxford and Cambridge!</p>
<p>^I’d also add Wellesley and Williams.</p>
<p>Boston University, Boston College, GWU, Oberlin, Colgate, Hamilton, UNC Chapel Hill, UMich, NYU, Bucknell, Reed, Macalester, Bowdoin, Wake Forest, USC, and Brandeis.</p>
<p>^^ Good point</p>
<p>Adapted list: Chicago, Caltech, MIT, Stanford, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Carnegie Mellon, Amherst, Reed, Middlebury, Harvey Mudd, UMich-AA, UVA, UNC, Washington St. Louis, Notre Dame, NYU, Emory, Vandy, Rice, Georgetown, UCLA, Cal, Wellesley, Williams, Smith, Holyoke, Colgate and of course Oxford and Cambridge.</p>
<ol>
<li>Google: best universities in America</li>
<li>Copy paste top 20</li>
<li>Erase all Ivy Leagues</li>
<li>???</li>
<li>Profit!</li>
</ol>
<p>This thread.</p>
<p>^ win</p>
<p>10 char</p>
<p>This is my list based on prestige</p>
<ol>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Yale </li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li><p>MIT</p></li>
<li><p>Caltech</p></li>
<li><p>Columbia</p></li>
<li><p>Duke</p></li>
<li><p>UPenn</p></li>
<li><p>Brown</p></li>
<li><p>UChicago</p></li>
<li><p>Dartmouth</p></li>
<li><p>Cornell</p></li>
<li><p>Georgetown</p></li>
<li><p>Johns Hopkins</p></li>
<li><p>Rice</p></li>
<li><p>UC Berkeley</p></li>
<li><p>Vanderbilt</p></li>
<li><p>Northwestern</p></li>
<li><p>Carnegie Mellon</p></li>
<li><p>Emory</p></li>
<li><p>UVA</p></li>
<li><p>Notre Dame</p></li>
<li><p>UCLA</p></li>
<li><p>UMich</p></li>
</ol>
<p>So if you take out the Ivies, the list goes:
<p>Uchicago, Caltech, MIT, Stanford, Williams, Swarthmore, Amherst, JHU,Northwestern,WashuU, Notre Dame, Emory, Rice, Georgetown, Duke, maybe Berkley</p>
<p>^^Number 18 on your list is in fact the most distinguished and exemplary institution of higher learning known to man. I don’t know why you have it so low.</p>
<p>I’m going to throw in Pomona College because it’s my dream college, has one of the highest retention rates in the nation, beats some aforementioned colleges in test scores, and most of all, few have heard of it. =/</p>
<p>Other than that I won’t bother making a list, as the other colleges I have in mind have already been mentioned.</p>
<p>Yeah, pomona is sweet. But I think harvey mudd seemed too intense for me, I don’t know, I should have visited it.</p>
<p>I’m surprised no one really mentions Olin =/</p>
<p>no one mentioned reed either, which i think to be better than alot of the top public schools in terms of pure academia, oh wait someone mentioned it</p>
<p>Williams
Wellesley
Vanderbilt
Georgetown
Middlebury
Rice
<em>sigh</em> amherst [I have a question: do you guys even know how to pronounce that correctly? b/c you seem to have an obsession with it]
Wesleyan
Johns Hopkins
Stanford
UChicago
NYU
Northwestern
Bowdoin
Tufts
Connecticut
Trinity
Bates</p>
<p>I think that’s good…</p>
<p>you know it’s odd to see my college on here because I didn’t pick it because of prestige, I was barely aware of the prestige it had or that some would think of it as prestigious like an ivy. </p>
<p>I just picked it because of the robots and theater and it seemed like a fun place. I figure people should just pick colleges because it has their interests and it’s gonna be fun for them.</p>