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<p>Point - it's all in the marketing name...;)
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<p>Dude, that's why it's called prestige. :p</p>
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i agree with NeoEpisteme, in Texas, Rice is considered to be a very top notch school. It all depends on region, I mean, in Tennessee, Vanderbilt is probably king, Georgia has Emory, and in North Carolina...well, let's just say that not all North Carolinians think Duke is such a "down-to-earth" school.
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<p>Way to totally derail this awesome thread, dude.</p>
<p>My first visit to this arena--sounds between quarrelsome and very interesting.</p>
<p>Easiest thing to do, is to take out the top 16 usnews undergrad ranking (ends at northwestern), then eliminate one school to meet the "top 15" criteria.</p>
<p>The most imprtant things in my opinion for prestige are admissions rate and sat ranges.</p>
<p>Chicago has a 40 percent admin rate, that's way too high, sorry it should be down to number 25. It's sat ranges are high, but a 40 percet admin rate is ridiculous.</p>
<p>Rice has a 22 percent admin rate and high sat ranges, it should be top 13.</p>
<p>Emory has a high acceptance rate and lower sat scores, it should be number 30.</p>
<p>my 2 centz.</p>
<p>chicago is not "prestigious"- it is an outstanding university- i would consider it top 10- but it is not top 15 most prestigiious- aka name recognition/famousness (i dont thinkk thats a word)</p>
<p>admin rate has no correlation with prestigiousness</p>
<p>admin rate definetely has a correlation with prestigiousness.</p>
<p>Is it sheer coincidence that the most prestigious universities, HYPSM, all have the lowest admin rates?</p>
<p>I mean, where is the prestige and bragging rights if nearly half the applicants get in?</p>
<p>seriously?</p>
<p>But if you get into a place with a 24 percent of less acceptance rate (with high sat scores), you're one in twenty thousand (or w/e), you did what many others couldn't do, you get prestige.</p>
<p>Emory has no business being tied with Rice, which has much higher sat scores and and a loswer admin rate.</p>
<p>U Chicago, Cornell, Chicago, Northwestern, and Johns Hopkins should definetely ALL be below Rice. Rice is more prestigious academically, and it's way harder to get in.</p>
<p>That being said, Dartmouth has NO business being ranked lower than UChicago in terms of prestigiousness or us news ranking.</p>
<p>seriously</p>
<p>i have nothing to say for Vanderbilt because i have no idea what it is.</p>
<p>i do have utter respect for UChicago and Rice crowds, but i dunno. a person above me is little bit inflammatory w/ his love for Rice.</p>
<p>also same thing goes with WUSTL. i thought it was an amazing school, but i don't think it's being mentioned as much as it should.</p>
<h1>383 is clearly strange midwest skewed thinking. Wisconsin, Mich, NU on a list without Duke and Dartmouth!!??**@@!!</h1>
<p>Before we start calling institutions of higher learning 'prestigious', we should look at the meaning of the 'word'. It is a derivative of 'praestigum', meaning delusion, or trickery. Another meaning is 'pomposity'. I wouldn't like my alma mater called 'pompous'(although it may be). Here we go.</p>
<p>i hate using this word, but jmanco, you're retarded.</p>
<p>No I'm not.</p>
<p>Harvard
Stanford
Princeton
New York University
Yale
Brown
Columbia
Cornell
Univ. of Southern California
UCLA
Notre Dame
Duke
MIT</p>
<p>The above are "Dream Schools" for students and parents, according to the Princeton Review. It's only 13 schools, but one could throw in CIT, UPenn, and Dartmouth.</p>
<p>NYU?!</p>
<p>Lots and lots of people could get into NYU with ease.</p>
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<p>agreed. 10char</p>
<p>no i'm not.</p>
<p>you're using infantile language.</p>
<p>lol (10 char)</p>
<p>Michigan should be on the list. It's a virtual tie with Berkeley and UCLA.</p>
<p>ivy+plus (10 schools), duke, caltech....</p>
<p>then i will just name all the schools that immediately come to my mind</p>
<p>wustl, uchicago, rice, berkeley, northwestern, johns hopkins...</p>
<p>well, that makes it 18.</p>
<p>i guess ill need to eliminate 3 of them...</p>
<p>eliminate uchic, berkely, johns hopkins.</p>
<p>their acceptance rates are too high</p>