Ranking Colleges by Prestigiosity

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<p>Very true, and I agree. However, I think a 990 is a bit overboard.</p>

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Duke, Columbia, and Penn (Wharton) are at 990. Georgetown is quite prestigious, and I think this would be an appropriate place.</p>

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<p>emmm 
 okay. Didn’t see the context of the rankings.</p>

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<p>“I would have never associated MIT with hot girls.”</p>

<p>I think they design and build their own.</p>

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<p>See? Harvard-hating prestigiosity at its finest.</p>

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<p>^ I wasn’t hating on Harvard
 I was just saying that maybe they have more attractive girls than MIT</p>

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<p>^^Not sure I see much connection. On the other hand, asserting the canard that Harvard is full of rich and/or legacy kids (as opposed to smart and/or deserving kids) is typical of a Harvard-bashing post.</p>

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I thought Princeton had more of a reputation for that than Harvard.</p>

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<p>I love this thread, although I’m late to the party. I also highly approve of the “CC Darlings” category!!</p>

<p>I have to disagree with “Northwestern, WUSTL, Rice: 975 mH”; my son’s fifth-grade principal told him Rice would be perfect for him. Are you sure Rice, with Beer Bike AND smart kids, doesn’t deserve at least a 976? And WUStL, pffffft. There’s a lot of WUStL-hating that goes on - does that increase or decrease its prestigiosity?</p>

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<p>But what do they think of it in Asia? That’s the tiebreaker for any prestigiosity ties.</p>

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<p>“But what do they think of it in Asia?”</p>

<p>Exactly. When you’re supervising the graveyard shift at a Nike factory in Kuala Lumpur, if your alma mater is at 970 and above, the hotter workers will ask you to escort them to their middle school proms.</p>

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<p>Berkeley gets 998 mH in Asia</p>

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<p>Indeed. And here it is, with Harvard as the benchmark of 100-point perfection:</p>

<p>[ARWU</a> 2010](<a href=“http://www.arwu.org/ARWU2010.jsp]ARWU”>http://www.arwu.org/ARWU2010.jsp)</p>

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<p>Silly Schmaltz. The middle schoolers manning the lines at the Nike factory that you’re overseeing won’t have time to go to school.</p>

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<p>As someone who knows quite a bit about and is involved with the aforementioned contests/programs, all I can say is that this statement is not true.</p>

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<p>Harvard: 1000 mH
Yale: 998 mH
Princeton: 998 mH
MIT (or Caltech): 997.365782322119 mH
Stanford: 995 mH (998 west of the Mississippi)
Duke: 990 mH (995 south of the Mason Dixon line)
Columbia: 990 mH
Penn (Wharton): 990 mH
Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, Brown: 988 mH
Penn (other than Wharton), Dartmouth: 985 mH
Cornell (CAS and engineering): 980 mH
Chicago: 978 mH
Northwestern, WUSTL, Rice: 975 mH
Johns Hopkins, Emory: 950 mH
Tufts, Vanderbilt, Georgetown: 925 mH
University of Virginia: 900 mH (950 in Virginia; 990 in Virginia excluding Northern Virginia)
UC Berkeley: 900 mH
UCLA, CMU, Notre Dame: 880</p>

<p>Fixed one</p>

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<p>Honestly, I feel like most of these numbers are WAY too generous. If you look at those numbers as percents, you’re basically saying the prestigiosity of WUSTL is only 2.5% less than that of Harvard. To anyone who has even glanced at CC, that’s ridiculous. I have no idea why everyone’s been so scared to extend the scale much past 900. I would say prestigiosity rankings would be more like:</p>

<p>Harvard: 1000 mH
Yale: 990 mH
Princeton: 990 mH
MIT (or Caltech): 992 mH
Stanford: 985 mH
Penn (Wharton): 985 mH</p>

<p>–CHASM–nearly no one on CC would choose a school below over one listed above, unless it’s in desperation for the Ivy brand name or if the person really wants an LAC</p>

<p>Columbia: 920 mH
Penn (other than Wharton), Dartmouth, Chicago: 917 mH
Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, Brown: 915 mH
Duke: 910 mH
Cornell (CAS and engineering): 900 mH</p>

<p>–a smaller chasm–</p>

<p>Northwestern, WUSTL, Rice: 870 mH
Johns Hopkins, Emory: 850 mH
Tufts, Vanderbilt, Georgetown: 825 mH
UC Berkeley: 800 mH
UCLA, UVA: 790 mH
CMU, Notre Dame: 775 mH</p>

<p>Just my thoughts =)</p>

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<p>my thoughts</p>

<p>Harvard: 1000 mH
Yale: 990 mH
Princeton: 990 mH
MIT (or Caltech): 992 mH
Stanford: 985 mH
Penn (Wharton), Columbia: 985 mH
Penn (other than Wharton), Dartmouth, Chicago: 950 mH
Brown, Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore: 915 mH
Duke: 910 mH
Cornell: 900 mH
Northwestern, UC Berkeley 875 mH
Johns Hopkins: 850 mH
UCLA, UVA, USC, Emory: 800 mH
WUSTL, Rice, CMU, Notre Dame: 775 mH
Tufts, Vanderbilt, Georgetown: 760 mH</p>

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<p>^ I agree </p>

<p>10char</p>

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<p>Brown is usually considered to be as strong as Dartmouth, Penn and Columbia, something which I tried to point out earlier</p>