<p>@PizaGirl: YEP. Everyone tells me that. It annoys my boyfriend so much, but eh. I’m a scientific person and I must believe in what I see.</p>
<p>@ the above users: Soo…one approach my friends use is that prestigious (am I confusing with popular?) elite universities are universities that are “better” than Cornell, the “weakest” Ivy. They say that entails Stanford, MIT, Duke, UChicago, and Northwestern (which are higher than Cornell in the USNews). Exceptions are WUSTL and Brown (the latter of whom is included while the former is interestingly excluded).
Berkeley is apparently a debatable cause.</p>