<p>Rank college prestige according to a common man’s standards, not CC standards…</p>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>(continue/edit list)</li>
</ol>
<p>common man...
Ivies plus Stanford and MIT</p>
<p>everything else.</p>
<p>Lol, I doubt the common man has ever heard of Upenn, Columbia, Dartmouth, Cornell & Brown.</p>
<p>Though, everyone knows what Yale is since pres. Bush went there.
So maybe</p>
<ol>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Yale?</li>
</ol>
<p>I think Berkeley has a bigger name internationally than most of the Ivies excluding Harvard, Yale, and Princeton.</p>
<ol>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>Berkeley</li>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
<li>Notre Dame</li>
<li>Duke</li>
<li>Georgetown</li>
<li>Rice</li>
<li>Texas-Austin</li>
<li>Emory</li>
<li>Southern Methodist</li>
<li>Texas A&M</li>
</ol>
<p>That's just the impression I get from talking to other people at my school. Of course we are close to Rice (200 miles) so it has a much better reputation than it does nationwide. It's also slanted toward local schools rather than the national spectrum. Still, Harvard & Yale both get more respect than anyone else.</p>
<p>every person in my town pretty much know all of the ivies, georgetown, stanford, mit, duke and notre dame.</p>
<p>harvard
yale
princeton
stanford
mit
berkeley
ucla
usc</p>
<p>my thought as an international student...</p>
<p>BTW, do employers know which ones are truly good or do they also rely on the common man's perception?</p>
<p>employers will know that schools like bowdoin, middlebury, amherst, etc are better than mich and berkley, but the common man wont.</p>
<p>Common man:</p>
<p>Harvard
Yale
Notre Dame
West Point
Annapolis</p>
<p>Common man has heard of a lot of the others, but connects them to sports, not academic prestige. On another thread I mentioned how a couple decades ago I tried to explain MIT to a common man in Michigan, and he said, "Oh, so it's sort of like the Detroit Institute of Technology" (DIT = now-defunct technical school). Prison guard uncle of mine in Eastern Pennsylvania said a kid down the street claimed to be going to Johns Hopkins. He said, "He ain't going to no Johns Hopkins--that's a MEDICAL school." I worked at an auto plant in Detroit one summer, and another college student summer hire was a Harvard student. EVERYBODY knew about Harvard, and busted her chops about it.</p>
<p>yes, they tend know which ones are truly good (although there is some truth in the general perception), and will highly value many LACs as well that are unheard of to the common man</p>
<p>The common man will rank Berkeley over University of Chicago. I was talking to someone who said that if they were accepted to both, they would go to Berkeley because of the name, nothing else.</p>
<p>I always thought MIT was higher than Harvard...I thought "wow he must have worked really hard to get into Harvard, or else his daddy's rich", as opposed to "wow he must be a genius to get into MIT, despite how hard her worked"</p>
<p>The common man only knows schools that play d1 sports, so when I say UChicago they give a blank stare but when I say Northwestern they instantly reply, that's a terrific school.</p>
<p>
<p>everything else.
</p>
<p>i definitely agree.</p>
<p>i dont agree with eskimogirl and bobbobbob</p>
<p>most people seem not to know ivy league school like darthmouth,brown,cornell while they know the schools as ivy league!!
but most people know harvard,yale,princeton,upenn,columbia...</p>
<p>Harvard
Yale
Stanford
MIT
Berkeley
Princeton
Columbia
...
...
Penn State
...
...
U Penn</p>
<p>Harvard! harvard! harvard!</p>
<p>Have you ever seen the ads for Beaver Creek Ski School (usually found in high-profile magazines)?</p>
<p>They have a very simple tagline:</p>
<p>"Oxford, Cambridge, Yale, Harvard, Beaver Creek Ski School: Not Exactly Roughing It."</p>
<p>I think that pretty much says it all.</p>
<p>i would say harvard,yale and mit are the most prestigious school after all...</p>