<p>just curious. how would you rank these schools in terms of their prestige? (subjectively)</p>
<p>emory, uchicago, notre dame, bc, vanderbilt, johns hopkins, georgetown, brown, cornell, rice</p>
<p>cornell
brown
johns hopkins
chicago
vanderbilt
rice
gtown
emory
notre dame
bc</p>
<p>As much as I hate prestige, this stuff is fun to do. Don’t take mine or anybody elses responses seriously.</p>
<p>Brown
Chicago
Hopkins
Cornell
Georgetown
rice
nd
Vanderbilt
Emory
bc</p>
<p>This also entirely depends on your region. Anywhere in the South, Vanderbilt and Rice are easily twice was well-regarded as Cornell and Brown. Dead serious.</p>
<p>but in MY PERSONAL opinion:</p>
<p>UChicago/Cornell/Brown</p>
<p>Georgetown/Vandy/Rice</p>
<p>JHU</p>
<p>Emory</p>
<p>ND/BC</p>
<p>Brown
Georgetown
Johns Hopkins
Cornell
UofC
Rice
Notre Dame
BC
Vanderbilt
Emory</p>
<p>^ Did you really just put Vandy below both BC AND Notre Dame? Both of those schools are experiencing a major downturn in terms of prestige and quality of applicants, whereas Vandy is one of the most rapidly rising schools in terms of academic recognition.</p>
<p>I mean, obviously, it’s subjective to a degree, but there are still certain objective standards. The USNWR isn’t 100% fabricated, you know. They have a methodology lol. Notre Dame is currently tied with both Vandy and Emory at 18th, but holy crap, BC is down at 34th, behind schools like:</p>
<p>Brandeis
UNC-CH
USC
Tufts
Wake Forest</p>
<p>etc.</p>
<p>Ha ha Brown> Uchicago</p>
<p>Cornell and Georgetown> University of Chicago?</p>
<p>Someone is on drugs.</p>
<p>Seriously, stop it with the prestige crap…</p>
<p>Are you suggesting that unc, wake, and tufts are bad schools?
And Vanderbilt is definitely rising in prestige, but notre dame still has slightly more in any place but the south</p>
<p>bad idea.</p>
<p>but…</p>
<p>brown
cornell
johns hopkins
notre dame
georgetown
chicago
bc
vanderbilt
rice
emory</p>
<p>it completely depends on the age of the person you ask. If you ask an elderly person/majority of adults this would be the list.
IT also depends on the location from which the people are from. There is no way you ask any1 in the northeast about emory and they can tell you where it is or how to say it</p>
<p>Here’s how I’d rate the schools. My personal rank is on the left, the prestige that people seem to have is on the right. Both really don’t matter…</p>
<p>UChicago-Brown
Rice-Cornell
Brown-UChicago
Cornell-JHU
JHU-Rice
Emory-Vanderbilt
Vanderbilt-Georgetown
Georgetown-Emory
ND-ND
BC-BC</p>
<p>Internationally:</p>
<p>Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Chicago
Georgetown
Brown, Rice
Emory
Notre Dame, Boston College
Vanderbilt</p>
<p>But, personally, I’d rank them this way:</p>
<p>JHU, Chicago, Rice
Cornell
Brown
Georgetown
Emory, Vanderbilt, Notre Dame
BC</p>
<p>Name Recognition Among Your Average Joes (WOW-effect):
- notre dame, cornell, johns hopkins, georgetown
- bc, vanderbilt
- brown, emory, uchicago, rice</p>
<p>Brown
Cornell
Georgetown
Johns Hopkins
U of Chicago
Notre Dame
Vanderbilt
Rice
Emory
BC</p>
<p>UChicago
Brown (unless you’re talking grad/research in which case it moves close to the bottom)
Cornell
JHU
Georgetown
Emory
Rice
BC
Vanderbilt
Notre Dame</p>
<p>All of these schools are good. Boston College is not as well recognized as the others, but really, they are all just as good. JHU is probably the most prestigious in my opinion, but that doesn’t make it any better than any other school on the list.</p>
<p>Tier 1: Brown / JHU / Georgetown
Tier 2: Notre Dame / BC / UChicago / Cornell
Tier 3: Vanderbilt / Emory / Rice</p>
<p>Each tier is increasingly rarely recognized by the public, IMO. The schools within each tier are mostly equal in terms of recognition.</p>
<p>None of this has anything to do with how good the school is, or what people in academic / highly professional circles would know about. I’m talking about your everyday Joe-Schmoe.</p>