<p>MIT
Caltech
Stanford
Chicago
Duke
Northwestern
Rice
UC-Berkeley
UCLA
John Hopkins</p>
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<p>I did. </p>
<p>10</p>
<p>Stanford
MIT
Caltech
Emory
Rice
NorthWestern
U. Chicago
Tufts
… and many more.</p>
<p>“I’m surprised no one really mentions Olin =/”</p>
<p>It’s not a university…</p>
<p>And neither are Amherst, Reed, Middlebury, Harvey Mudd, Wellesley, Williams, Smith, Holyoke, Colgate.</p>
<p>NYU, MIT Caltech, University of Chicago…</p>
<p>Okay…
- Stanford
- MIT
- Duke
4 Caltech - Northwestern
- U Chicago
- John Hopkins
- U Michigan
- UCLA&UC Berkeley
And Amherst is also prestigious, but it isn’t a uni…</p>
<p>That’s just what I thought of, it changes constantly and I understand people’s opinions vary.</p>
<p>BYU… prestige, Mormon style.</p>
<p>Georgetown, UChicago, John Hopkins, EMORY, Stanford, Duke, Northwestern</p>
<p>^ Sorry for my ignorance, but what is Georgetown known for? I’m just curious, since it doesn’t seem to do very well in rankings (not that those are very accurate) and the one time I’ve heard of it, was when I read the Gossip Girl books a few years ago, it was Blair Waldorf’s safety school… which didn’t really make Georgetown sound good. All I know that it is in the city of the president :)</p>
<p>Dude, my rankings book has it in the top 20 last time I checked. It’s medical and law programs are pretty highly ranked, and it’s a Catholic affiliated university. I don’t plan on applying there.</p>
<p>Georgetown = best known for political science around the world. International relations, etc. You’d be amazed at the amount of foreign princes, sons of prime ministers, etc that go there. (I believe Prince Phillip of Greece just graduated from G-Town?). If you want to be a diplomat, president, or something of the sort, Georgetown is a top school.</p>
<p>And didn’t the OP ask everyone to disregard MIT and Stanford? 
But yeah, I think a pretty good list has been made…</p>
<p>That was edited in I believe. </p>
<p>UCB and UCLA also count. UVA</p>
<p>Isn’t Georgetown SFS nearly as difficult as the top ivies admission wise?</p>
<p>Georgetown in general is difficult to get into. One of the most selective colleges actually.</p>
<p>The SFS acceptance rate in 08-09 was around 20%.</p>
<p>I guess its established that Stanford, MIT, Duke, Caltech, and UChicago are the universities that can battle Ivies on an equal footing…</p>
<p>I make it sound like a wrestling match 
I wanted to include Georgetown, but people here on CC don’t seem to have a good opinion of it…isn’t it like the number 1 school in politics and international relations?
I thought its like a Caltech (uber strong in science/tech but weak in other stuff).</p>
<p>G-Town is strongest in PoliSci, but also has good law and medicine like another poster noted. I’d say it’s more like MIT (Best known for something, but also excellent in other areas (For MIT it’d be business, etc)).</p>
<p>Note: Out of your above list^ I think just MIT and Stanford have steady equal footing with the Ivies. Duke and Caltech are fairly recent additions to the high prestige scale. Just think about all the movie references from decades back for MIT and Stanford (even beaches mentioned Stanford, srsly), and UChi…well, they just have a freakin’ lot of Nobel prize winners Although I think Duke may someday make it up there (probably at the same time that Vandy, Emory, and the other “Magnolia League” schools do), and Caltech as well if they strengthen some of their other areas, for now there’s a reason it’s HYPMS is so known.</p>
<p>And also think about it on a more ‘global’ perspective. Ask a foreigner what MIT, Stanford, Johns Hopkins, UChi are, they’ll know. Heck, ask a foreigner what Dartmouth is and they won’t even be able to pronounce it. Caltech and Duke aren’t as known internationally (unless you ask a professional in the fields they’re good at) as far as I know, at least for now.</p>
<p>Again, I’m not saying they aren’t prestigious, which they deff are, I just don’t think they’re up to Ivy level on that…</p>
<p>gt sfs is a world-renowned institution</p>
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<p>@Metallika: Out of curiosity, do you believe Cornell, Dartmouth, UPenn, and Brown deserve the Ivy title when Caltech and Duke are apparently not up to the ivy level?
Because I see the “lower ivies” and Caltech, Duke, and UChicago as peers equal in prestige and academics.</p>