Peer schools you really respect...

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<p>Alma Mater: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY</p>

<p>Slightly Superior:
Harvard
Princeton
Yale</p>

<p>Peer Institutions:
Stanford (the most similar to Columbia in terms of academics/prestige)
MIT
Caltech
Chicago</p>

<p>Respect:
Duke
Dartmouth
WUSTL</p>

<p>UMMMM…still good but…HELL NO:
Brown
Cornell
Northwestern
PENN (seriously…penn is overrated)</p>

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<p>Middlebury</p>

<p>Peer Schools I respect (even though it often pains me to admit it): Williams, Amherst, Dartmouth, Bowdoin, Pomona, Brown.</p>

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<p>Nice thread idea.</p>

<p>Stanford - MIT, Berkeley, Chicago, Cornell, Harvard, Columbia, Penn</p>

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<p>Really? On prestige…</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/2010-2011/reputation-rankings.html[/url]”>http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/2010-2011/reputation-rankings.html&lt;/a&gt;
<a href=“http://www.gallup.com/poll/9109/harvard-number-one-university-eyes-public.aspx[/url]”>http://www.gallup.com/poll/9109/harvard-number-one-university-eyes-public.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>NO; NOT A CHANCE. </p>

<p>Stanford is superior to Columbia. Stanford’s peer schools are: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT and Caltech. </p>

<p>Columbia clearly belongs to the lower group of great schools.</p>

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<p>Columbia is heavily overrated as is the school I’m attending UPenn. Brown/Dartmouth are very underrated for undergrad.</p>

<p>For best undergraduate education the truth is:</p>

<p>HYP>Dartmouth>Brown>UPenn=Columbia>Cornell</p>

<p>Prestige wise I would say:</p>

<p>Harvard=Stanford>Yale>Princeton>Columbia=UPenn=Dartmouth=Brown>Cornell</p>

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<p>And on it goes…</p>

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<p>^ NAH</p>

<p>In terms of international prestige (at least for Hong Kong): </p>

<p>Harvard >> Yale > Princeton = Wharton >> Columbia > Cornell > Penn > Brown >>> Dartmouth.</p>

<p>Anyway…
School: Cornell
Love: Stanford
Respect: JHU, Princeton, Rice
Disrespect: Penn CAS, Dartmouth</p>

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<p>RoarLionsRoar03 is probably a ■■■■■. Putting Penn and Cornell under ‘UMMMM…still good but…HELL NO’ - probably trying to incite others.</p>

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<p>@waitatshu: No one gives a crap about what hong kong thinks, all the jobs are here in the US. Besides China, everywhere else it’s:</p>

<p>HYP>Columbia=UPenn=Brown=Dartmouth>Cornell</p>

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<p>^ except, you know, all the jobs that we ship to China. :p</p>

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<p>^ lol and it annoys me that the mods/admin are too lazy to do their jobs and lock stupid threads like these.</p>

<p>LOCK STUPID AND CONTROVERSIAL THREADS LIKE THESE</p>

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<p>“No one gives a crap about what hong kong thinks” - LOL, narrow minded much? Besides, I’m not just talking about HK, upenn lacks international recognition in general (with the exception of Wharton, of course)</p>

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<p>Attend: UChicago
Respect: JHU, MIT, Cornell, Princeton, Edit: Berkeley needs more respect</p>

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<p>Brown, and never more so than now that Ruth Simmons, one of the best New England college presidents in recent years, is stepping down. :D</p>