prestige

<p>Is it good to apply to Ivy league school JUST for the presige? Like I know a lot of people who just apply to ivy league schools without checking them out because they like being elite, lol</p>

<p>you really like to say lol, don't you</p>

<p>but yeah, a lot of ppl apply to ivies for prestige...i mean most know they're not going to get in, but their parents made them do it simply because they're the "Ivy League".</p>

<p>A prestigious university must have admirable qualities in order for it to be as well-known as it is. Judging entirely on prestige is not arrogant.</p>

<p>Yeah, many of my applications were based on prestige, but as Strykur said, they became prestigious for a reason, though at the same time I'm not going to blindly apply to a college that I know I wouldn't like and just force myself to like it, but yeah, though a good deal of the reason I did end up matriculating to a certain college definitely did lean on prestige.</p>

<p>A certain college in Massachusetts...haha.</p>

<p>Anyway, since there's 8 of them, sure you might apply to one or two of them because of the prestige, but don't be like those who apply to like 6 of them because of that because they're all very different schools.</p>

<p>My deciding factor in not applying to Ivy League schools was that most were too far north for my liking and (for the ones that weren't too far north) I didn't like UPenn's urban campus or Princeton's town.</p>

<p>None of mine were based on prestige alone. Aside from USC, I only applied to schools I had visited and liked. I followed the money trail to matriculation though, passing up a certain college in Palo Alto.</p>

<p>Tony, I didn't know you were going to Williams...hahahaha</p>

<p>I personally don't like it when people apply to colleges based just on prestige. Like when someone says they are applying to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Columbia, and Brown, I just think they are a prestige whore instead of genuinely interested in all these colleges.</p>

<p>prestige is the worst reason to pick a college</p>

<p>Prestige is BS, esp. if you're going to grad school. I passed up a certain school in Baltimore for a very asian college.</p>

<p>^^ Pardon me, BS?</p>

<p>I think what squarehead was trying to say was that the prestige of your undergraduate school means nothing if you goto a no-name school for your grad degree.</p>

<p>The prestige of your grad school matters more than the prestige of your ugrad school (if you do go to grad school).</p>