<p>Is that correct (according to prestige)? or is one better than the others? can somebody explain the relationship, pros/cons of each? thank you!</p>
<p>Northwestern is the most prestigious of the three by far. Some may argue that it is the only prestigious institution among the three you’ve mentioned. NU has premier programs in business, medicine, and top-notch programs across the humanities, social sciences, and hard sciences. Its undergraduate schools are selective and well-respected, too.</p>
<p>NYU has premier programs in business and law, a strong program in medicine, and an impressive number of respectable programs across the three core areas mentioned above. However, its undergraduate schools are notorious for the exorbitant rates they charge, and are victim to the scornful criticism that their only merit lays in their New York City location.</p>
<p>I don’t know what a Case Western is… is it some fourth tier engineering school?</p>
<p>If you don’t even know what Case Western Reserve University is, your opinions on upper tier universities have zero credibility. </p>
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<p>Northwestern>>>>>>>>>>>>>>NYU>>>>>>>Case Western</p>
<p>Northwestern >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> NYU >= Case Western</p>
<p>There is no question that NU is impressive, but I can honestly say the same thing for NYU, though NYU isn’t as selective as NU for undergrad. </p>
<p>NU > NYU > Case Western – in terms of overall academic prestige.</p>
<p>northwestern>>>NYU>>>>>>>>>>>>Case Western</p>
<p>Case Western? Really? NYU isn’t really prestigious for undergrad (it is for MBA and law school), but Case Western and prestige should not even be in the same sentence.</p>
<p>That’s not true. IT all depends on what you want. Case Western is waaay more known for engineering and science than NYU and Northwestern. Northwestern is, yes the most prestigious but it is best known for its theater, journalism, and communications type programs. NYU is most known for its international relations type programs. And Case Western DOES have some prestige when it comes to engineering schools. The only reason it is less prestigious is because the ivy league schools are generally the schools getting the most funding for their labs and such, but Case Western is truly up there…</p>
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<p>When it is ranked #37 or something, I cannot see why you say that Case Western is “truly” up there…</p>
<p>Because the rankings are nonsense. They measure prestige, not educational quality. They are primarily of importance to people who went to schools with lots of prestige, whose kids went to schools with lots of prestige, who want to go to or send their kids to schools with lots of prestige - and who don’t otherwise have a clue.</p>
<p>What? Case Western is ranked 50th in Americas 4000 colleges, how is that not prestigious? Also…</p>
<p>NU > NYU>>>>>Case Western in terms of prestige</p>
<p>How can you say NYU is not prestigious? That is just insane.</p>
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<p>NYU’s biggest attraction (besides Stern and Tisch) is NYC. Case’s biggest detraction is Cleveland, and like NU, it exists in fly-over country (a decided negative to magazines based in NYC). :D</p>
<p>Chicagoland is hardly flyover country. I honestly don’t believe many coasties actually believe that.</p>
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<p>You said it yourself. OP is asking us to rank them based on prestige :)</p>
<p>Northwestern - 12
NYU - 33
Case Western 41</p>
<p>[National</a> University Rankings | Top National Universities | US News Best Colleges](<a href=“http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities/spp+50]National”>http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities/spp+50)</p>
<p>NYU is ridiculously expensive for undergrad while ranked 33. Georgia tech at 35 provides an elite ranked engineering program at 2/3rd the cost of NYU for OOS (40k vs 59k). </p>
<p>The main attraction Case Western has is a combined program for BS/MD. It is one of the private schools that has been slipping steadily in the rankings over the years which is by itself should be a bit discouraging.</p>
<p>NW accepts 15-17% applicants, NYU 38% and Case Western 70%. These numbers should tell you something.</p>
<p>They are all very good schools; however, as stated in the above posts, prestige-wise the order is Northwestern, NYU, and Case Western.</p>
<p>A bit of info about each…</p>
<p>Northwestern- located in Evanston, IL (northern suburb of Chicago), along Lake Michigan, awesome-looking campus, very good academics, Big 10 Athletics, Chicago, medium sized university</p>
<p>NYU- located in the heart of New York City, doesn’t have a real campus feel, you do see your classmates quite a bit because the academic buildings are all in the same neighbor but not the same, has all the opportunities NYC offers, known to be extremely pricey, larger sized university</p>
<p>Case Western- located in Cleveland, known to be very strong in engineering and the sciences, easier to get into, good academic programs, small/medium sized university</p>
<p>Hope that helps!</p>
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<p>Your information is out of date. CWRU’s rate for 2011 freshmen was 48%.</p>
<p>annasdad - do you have any links to 2011? I pulled this from rankings from last year but I found a link for 2010 which says 67%. I can’t imagine going from 67% to 48 in one year especially if 2008-9 was 73%. </p>
<p>[Case</a> Western Reserve Profile - SAT Scores and Admissions Data for Case Western Reserve](<a href=“http://collegeapps.about.com/od/collegeprofiles/p/Case-Western.htm]Case”>Case Western Reserve: Acceptance Rate, SAT/ACT Scores)</p>
<p>^More people have been finding out about CWRU. At first people didn’t know about it, so less people applied. And the people that applied were already well qualified. So THIS is why i was wondering. Pretty much every body applies to NU and NYU, but not everybody gets in. Thanks for answering my question guys i got a clear perspective on things
General Consensus:
NU>NYU>CWRU
so… how bout CWRU and CMU? :)</p>
<p>Cmu > cwru</p>