<p>North Atlanta suburbs</p>
<p>Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Stanford
MIT
Columbia
Duke (cuz of sports)
Wharton
Brown
Uchicago
Dartmouth
Rest of Penn
Cornell
Northwestern
Emory
GaTech
UGA </p>
<p>Had to include the 3 regional places at the end.
The gap between MIT and Columbia is pretty significant.</p>
<p>HYP
Mit
Duke
JHU
Vandy
Stanford
Caltech
Col, Dart, Corn, Brown</p>
<p>Im the only one from NC who wants to go to WashU</p>
<p>= NYC Suburbs =</p>
<p>Universities:
Harvard
Yale, Princeton, Stanford
Duke, UPenn, Columbia, Dartmouth
Georgetown, Vanderbilt, Notre Dame, UVA, Cornell
USC, Michigan, Wake Forest
Boston College, Lehigh, NYU, Tulane</p>
<h2>Miami, BU, Fordham, Syracuse, Maryland, Delaware, Loyola, Villanova</h2>
<p>LACs:
Amherst, Williams
Middlebury, Bowdoin, Colgate, Davidson, W&L
Richmond, Colorado, Bucknell</p>
<p>(Schools that are missing aren’t popular in my area)</p>
<p>@barrk note that I didn’t even mention Yale/Princeton/Caltech :D</p>
<p>You know what, let me change the ranks (in terms of popularity) :
1-100. Berkeley. Berkeley ftw.</p>
<p>You come here and say you got into UChicago/Princeton/NU/Vandy, all you get is a blank look, a moment of awkward silence and a question: “Uh… So did you get into Berkeley?” </p>
<p>It’s &@*#£¥ annoying. (UCB is still a great school though)</p>
<p>Yea, UCLA and UCB seem to be very prestigious overseas.</p>
<p>UChicago apparently is getting more prestigious these days, with the sudden upsurge in applications and rise in the rankings.</p>
<p>
Perhaps that is true if your concept of prestige rises and falls with the admit rate. Personally, I think Chicago’s prestige is pretty much the same as it always was. After all, it hasn’t changed academically, even if it’s drawing from a larger applicant base than before. It was always an extremely strong research university with a high performing student body. </p>
<p>The difference is simply that Chicago has finally caught up to where it should’ve been based on its academic strength and current admissions trends. Its admit rate is roughly the same as peer colleges like Brown and Dartmouth, as one would expect, and its current rank in various rankings - behind Harvard/Stanford/Princeton/etc. and tied with or a little behind Columbia - is a pretty accurate measure of its academic strength.</p>
<p>There isn’t anyway to say for sure. Although, with the number of Chicago kids on cc going on about how their school is better than HYP the notion might just catch on. Keep at it.</p>
<p>To the average person in the midwest</p>
<p>HYPSM
(other ivies if they are known)
Michigan
Notre Dame
Northwestern</p>
<p>Even though Chicago is in the Midwest, it isn’t known to the average person because it dosent’t have sports. People know the Michigan/ND/NU name because of sports and then they become aware of their academic prestige. Your average person in the Midwest dosen’t know what Rice or WSTL is and they don’t know that Duke is good at academics. They just know that Duke has a good bball team.</p>
<p>In the South</p>
<p>HYPSM
Vandy/Duke
rest of ivies (if known)
Georgetown/Rice/Emory/WashU</p>
<p>Obviously you have HYPSM. But down in TN, AL, MS, etc. Vandy is the Harvard of the South. If you tell someone that you are going to Vandy in Nashville or in Birmingham, they treat that on par with going to Yale.</p>
<p>UIUC, Wisconsin and Purdue are very well known in the midwest. From what I’ve experienced, people couldn’t tell the difference between Indiana and Michigan in terms of academics. They see all big ten schools as equals more or less. Purdue seems to have an inflated status where I live for some reason though. Maybe has something to do with the name not being a typical state university name or something.</p>
<p>^^^^^I beg to differ. There is no question that Michigan is seen as an overall academically superior school to Indiana, even in the Midwest.</p>
<p>Jefferson Community College is the Harvard of my high school.</p>
<p>"^^^^^I beg to differ. There is no question that Michigan is seen as an overall academically superior school to Indiana, even in the Midwest."</p>
<p>This is simply my point of view, living in Illinois (not Chicago). In fact, I’ve heard people around here talking about how stupid UNC students are (Duke fans) and how dumb Michigan and Ohio State are in terms of students as well. Even though I know for a fact none of these students would be accepted into any of those univerities. No one really knows what they’re talking about. I guess it’s one of the many downsides to living in an area with few college graduates compared to other cities. Most people on CC seem like they live, or are around other college graduates. Once you get into more rural, or poor areas, or even comparatively poorer cities the level of knowledge about colleges drops dramatically.</p>
<p>Harvard
Princeton
MIT
Yale
Columbia
CalTech
Stanford
UPENN
UChicago
Duke
Dartmouth
NWU
JHU
WUSTL
Brown/Cornell
Notre Dame/Vanderbilt/Rice
Emory</p>
<p>Singapore, Asia</p>
<p>Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Princeton, Yale,
Caltech, Berkeley, Columbia, Chicago
Penn, Cornell, UCLA, Michigan
Northwestern, Duke, JHU, WUSTL, Brown, Dartmouth</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>Ooh, ah, yessss. But can you scratch a little farther to the right please? Rural Vermont north of Rt 89? I’m thinking of relocating (but only if my alma mater is well-known there.)</p>
<p>Harvard
MIT
Stanford
Yale
Princeton
USMA/USAFA/USNA
Duke
Rice
Caltech
WashU
JHU
UT </p>
<p>Everything else is pretty unknown.</p>