<p>I just wonder where should Middlebury, Bowdoin, Wellesley, and Colorado College be placed?</p>
<p>Some changes on my part:
Harvard, Stanford: 1000 mH
Yale/Princeton: 998 mH
MIT: 997
Caltech: 996
Columbia: 993 mH
Duke: 990 mH (995 south of the Mason Dixon line)
Penn (Wharton): 990 mH
Chicago: 988 mH
Brown: 987 mH
Penn (other than Wharton), Dartmouth: 985 mH
Cornell (CAS and engineering): 980 mH
Vandy, GTown: 978
Northwestern, WUSTL, Rice: 975 mH
Johns Hopkins
Tufts, Wesleyan: 925 mH
University of Virginia: 900 mH (950 in Virginia; 990 in Virginia excluding Northern Virginia)
UC Berkeley: 900 mH
Michigan 890 mH
UCLA, CMU, Notre Dame: 880</p>
<p>Made some minor changes, most notably Stanford being more selective than Harvard, MIT being ranked higher, and UChicago gaining major ground in selectivity/prestige among non-academics. I also think Vandy and GTown are more prestigious than Tufts, Weslyan. </p>
<p>How about Pomona and Wellesley? I think those two have a shot of beating out Notre Dame, at least in their respective geographic regions. </p>
<p>Wharton should be higher</p>
<p>MIT absolutely cannot have a whole number mH. MIT (or Caltech): 997.365782322119 mH</p>
<p>997 is fine, itās a prime number.</p>
<p>Stanford isnāt on harvards prestige level. I think it should be HYPSM in that order or HYPMS</p>
<p>Bowdoin.</p>
<p>What an inane threadā¦</p>
<p>Do people here really want to bother debating where college X lands on a āPrestigiosityā ranking vs college Y? Does it really matter?</p>
<p>It matters just as much as the US News ranking.</p>
<p>At least the US News tries to rank Colleges based on quality not something as stupid as āPrestigiosityā
And even then the rankings are far from the be all and end all.</p>
<p>@NamelesStatisticā Iām pretty sure nobody is going to base which colleges they apply to on this list, itās just for fun.</p>
<p>Emory is way too high.</p>
<p>Donāt know why these āno namesā are in the prestigious list? 
Penn ,Williams, Amherst, Swarthmoreļ¼ Brown, Dartmouth, Vandy, Gtown, Tuffs</p>
<p>Using my Asian prestigious standard, this is it:
Harvard: 1000 mH (åä½ ļ¼
Stanford: 1000 mH ļ¼å²å¦ē¦ ļ¼
MIT: 1000 mH ļ¼éŗ»ēēå·„ļ¼
Cornell: 1000 mH ļ¼åŗ·ä¹ē¾ļ¼</p>
<p>Didnāt know these are prestigious American universities:
Yale: Always be mistaken as a British university 950 mH
Princeton: Not knowing it until you hear that Eienstine was there 800 mH
Caltech: too small 800mH
Columbia: donāt know itās an ivy, just a private university 800 mH
Duke: a strong baseketball based state school 700mH
Johns Hopkins: many good doctors 700 mH
Chicago: a city university and not been recognized until Obamaās on the news 500 mH
Brown: Mr. Brown coffee (an Asian brand coffee) 400 mH
Northwestern: An airline company? 400 mH
UC Berkeley: hippies, but always on TV or movies 900mH</p>
<p>@dsi411ā </p>
<p>I dunno, some of the people on CC are crazy into any sort of rankingā¦ I wouldnāt put it past some folks here.</p>
<p>This thread is and has always been for our own amusement. Frankly, I still find it highly amusing, especially when anyone takes it seriously.</p>
<p>^^^Somehow the smiley face after my first sentence in my previous post is not there anymoreā¦ but the second paragraph down are of truth from different perspective of foreign-born Americans or Asian general publics.</p>
<p>This thread did provide some amusement</p>
<p>What about scs?</p>
<p>I am gratified that this thread has re-emerged. Some of the suggested changes, though, donāt work because of the criterion for presitigiosity: the desire expressed by students on CC to get into the college in question, as perceived by me. Thus, Iām sorry to say (as a Yale person) that Stanford does not have, and probably never will have, as much prestigiosity as Harvard. Itās close, though. I am somewhat receptive, though, to moving Penn (Wharton) up, because I seem to hear more and more about it from desperate high school students.</p>