<p>I’m from Europe and without a doubt Stanford is better known and more prestigious than Princeton by quite a bit (UK, France and Germany). It’s just that most “common” people have never heard of Princeton. Similar rep in a way to Imperial College London or Waterloo or Queens in Canada (amazing schools, just below the radar outside their home countries). </p>
<p>This by no means is a reflection of the university in my opinion. WWS is worthless but Pton math is incredible and ORFE is good too.</p>
<p>^Interesting. That’s really weird, because when I was in Europe (Czech Republic and Belgium) about a decade ago, no one really knew universities in the US except HYP, and even those didn’t really get mentioned that much by those without family/friends in the US.</p>
<p>I don’t know, I spent a good deal of time in the UK and MidEast and Princeton def seemed to carry a ton of respect. When I was in the UK, it, along with HYS seemed to be held in equal esteem to oxbridge.</p>
<p>WWS feeds you straight to Wall Street without as much of a “real” economic background.</p>
<p>jomjom said: “So what is the best way to get Stanford MBA or Stanford graduate degree???
Answer :: Stanford UG degree.”</p>
<p>See I am utterly utterly confused by why Asians always think the best way to get a school’s grad degree is to go there for undergrad (I’m an Asian). Seriously, all my relatives think this. I have spoken both to admissions officers at UChicago and at Princeton who have told me that getting your undergrad there decreases your chance of going to grad school there - they try not to take too many of their own kids because they want to be able to a) send these kids out to excel and impress in the world, and b) free up more spots for kids from elsewhere so that they can associate the name of their university with a numerically larger pool of future stars.</p>
<p>WWS is not worthless if you want to go into finance, consulting, non-profit, or government work. In fact, many organizations highly regard WWS graduates.</p>
<p>One small addition to this dumb thread: Given the relative class sizes at Princeton and Stanford, that is a better representation from Princeton.</p>
<p>Yes and no. The rankings are based on real cross-admits in the sense that they are calculated (through a complicated statistical extrapolation) from actual matriculation decisions of thousands of students who were admitted to multiple schools. However, the table of probabilities given for choosing school A over school B (given the choice just between those two) is a prediction of their model, not real data, and it differs substantially from what they actually observed in the data. Those “probabilities” are just an artifact of the statistical model and a way to illustrate it. </p>
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<p>Yale and Stanford were also at parity in the fall 1999 cohort from which the study drew its data. See this earlier thread for references and other analysis of the study:</p>