Williams
Amherst
Swarthmore
Pomona
@GnocchiB : Far from a micro-aggression. OP is accurately stating a fact. The school is Dartmouth College. One hopes it always will be. It reflects an institutional attention to undergraduate education that many would view as unmatched by any other school. Regards
@AboutTheSame, yes I know Dartmouth very well as my brother went there and I spent time with him on its campus. My remark was tongue in cheek.
Michigan?
WUSTL & Emory…too high.
@GnocchiB : Darn. I missed the sarcasm style font. :)>-
Swarthmore and UC were the poster children of “self-selected” student bodies for much of the last forty years.
A lot of people asking about Michigan, I had Michigan one below UVA but see the point of why it should be ahead of it.
IMO, Vandy should be higher than it is, definitely above Emory if you’re going by prestige. But really, be sure to email this list to US News, they’ll replace theirs right away!
great ranking, but i rank it below Hunt’s ranking on prestigiosity, because Hunt’s ranking had a hook (creating ‘prestigiosity’, which is a very catchy sounding word)
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"If the list is by “prestige,” I’d move Chicago way down. No way it’s equal to something Columbia. Maybe among current kids, but not among those that have been in the business world for any amount of time (i.e., the decision makers).
Chicago simply doesn’t have the history to be ranked up that high. It was only a few years ago that it had a roughly 50% acceptance rate.
It’s managed to “work” the US News numbers by a lot of marketing, mass mailings, etc. to drive applications up and thus acceptance rate down. But this is a new thing. U of C needs a few decades to prove itself before it can be considered as prestigious as schools that have been prestigious for 200 years."
I laughed.
Chicago doesn’t have the history? 89 Nobel Prizes isn’t prestigious? The place where Fermi spit the atom? The place that created sociology? The place where carbon dating was discovered? The place that has the largest academic press in the world? The place that created the Chicago schools of Economics and Law? The place where plutonium was isolated? The place with top-ranked programs and scholars and alumni in every field it offers?
I suspect that “those in the business world” that you are talking about are the one that don’t know or care much about academics.
The reason that Chicago’s acceptance rate was high for decades was because it was viewed as too rigorous, too nerdy, and no fun - not because it lacked “prestige.” The only people that went there really wanted to go there. Meanwhile, a place like Notre Dame always had a much lower acceptance rate, because every Catholic high schooler in America wanted to cheer for the golden helmet football team, even though the academic experience never has been remotely comparable to Chicago’s.