<p>Bourne/ i wonder why Caltech isn't known as much as HYPMS yet... well, actually there are alot of other good schools that aren't known, but Caltech is in west coast (versus midwest or south), has an ongoing rivalry against MIT (as far as im concerned), and has been constantly ranked within top 10 for several years. it's about time layppl catch up to the name and its reputation.</p>
<p>i'm guessing its name recognition lies somewhere between HYPMS-level and Northwestern-level???</p>
<p>How many ppl do you actually know goes to Caltech?</p>
<p>Prestige spreads by word of mouth almost. "Yeah, my brother's nephew is attending Yale... or "My daughter's son is attending XYZ college"</p>
<p>I only know one person who is matriculating to Caltech.</p>
<p>Its entire undergraduate class is less than 900 ppl!!!! Thats soooo tiny, Its like a LAC engineering school. Thats why size matters here.</p>
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<p>So all the people who go to Yale and Princeton are basically robotic, heartless, power-hungry prestige whores?</p>
<p>Uh...thanks?</p>
<p>Though I'd like to ask on what basis you're making that statement, how many Yale/Princeton kids you know, how many times you've visited the campus, etc. I spent a long time weighing between the two schools and have visited the campuses multiple times--the people at Yale especially are very bright, very interesting and very normal. Most of them got over the prestige thing a few weeks after getting the acceptance letter.</p>
<p>Please, please know what you're talking about before making ridiculous and broadly offensive blanket statements.</p>
<p>Anyway, I'm headed to Princeton and my brother recently graduated from MIT, so I've spent a lot of time at both places. Anyone who cherishes this image of MIT as a place where super-geniuses take refuge from the heartless careerism of the Ivy League would be disappointed. Most of the students are like my brother: extremely gifted at science and math but without much more intellectual curiosity than the average college student. From what I've seen, they're actually a bit more career-driven than people in HYP (or at least, YP).</p>
<p>In any case, making that kind of distinction between MIT and YP is just really dumb if you haven't spent significant amounts time at all three schools. </p>
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<p>Then you obviously haven't spent much time at MIT. Or at any of these schools. Though I'll grant that MIT does seem to have a lot of freak prodigies. One of my brother's first hall-mates was fourteen--and another, a rocket science prodigy who never came out of his room. Those types of people are obviously a very, very small minority, compared to MIT's main population of hardcore nerdy Mathletes who suck at basketball.</p>
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<p>"Please, please know what you're talking about before making ridiculous and broadly offensive blanket statements."</p>
<p>wow. you wasted all that time writing that huge response only to contradict yourself right at the end. What a shame; you almost made it out alive!</p>
<p>^^ He was probably just mocking you.</p>
<p>and it's nice to know that that's the only defense you have after all the other criticisms of your glaringly ignorant post. (i have no idea why you even bothered to post again...)</p>
<p>^^ I thought it was obvious sw_haldar01 was being sarcastic... guess that it wasn't so obvious to everyone. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>Great post, at any rate, sw_haldar01.</p>
<p>Caltech is known... well many of the leading professors in their field speak highly of caltech graduates... and professors.. mainly because of all the innovations they have done and winning multiple nobel prizes compared to MIT and other prestigious and great scientific/technological universities.</p>
<p>All in all... i dont think their is a prestigious university... though their is prestigious jobs, and that is by no means in correlations to great universities where people go to... Medicine is a great example of this.. residency spots are given to people who did well wherever they made do with...</p>
<p>AS long as i got a book, a person who is top of their field and can teach well... pencil and paper... a laptop... im fine.. i dont care where i go</p>
<p>^^ you know that you can edit your post after you submit. that way you could avoid posting three separate times, even after pressing the submit button.</p>
<p>I can't believe no one included the University of Phoenix, Devry University and Starfleet Academy, among others. Slackers . . .</p>
<p>UofPhoenix=THE most prestigious university on earth; anyone who does internet is entitled to know this awesome univ</p>
<p>DeVry Univ is close second.</p>
<p>I like CWalker's post from another thread:</p>
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<p>Princeton, Stanford, Yale, Cambridge, Harvard, Oxford ...it even describes the people who care about only going to a top uni!
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<p>And Starfleet Academy--as meaningfully prestigious as PSYCHO.</p>
<p>Kidding aside, think beyond ‘prestige’! Where will you be happiest? Which colleges provide the right match for you? Where you go to college does not determine who you are as a person, your worth, nor your contributions to this world.</p>
<p>DeVry? As in the the one in those commercials that offer training for courses to make video games and computer game engineering? LMFAO. Those games suck. I'm sorry.</p>
<p>I just drove by University of Phoenix campus (conviently located next to Sports Authority, KMart, and BJs) and it does look legit...</p>
<p>Finally some people who are taking this thread as seriously as it deserves! And thanks for the plug integrity</p>
<p>LMAO, bball87, what a nut job.</p>
<p>Kid enrolled as a freshman at Cornell, transferred as a sophomore to Northwestern, transferred as a junior to Penn, and now is likely out there somewhere trying to get into Wharton.</p>
<p>His reasons behind the moves? Prestige. That's it. Just wanted to go to the "best school" he could get into.</p>
<p>The 7 Ivies, MIT, Caltech, Stanford, Duke, John Hopkins, UCBerkeley, Cambridge, Oxford.</p>
<p>There are 8 Ivies Vivi.</p>
<p>If i did top 15, I would be leaving very prestigious universites out...so, in my opinion, the top 30 (or so) would be:</p>
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<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>Caltech</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>Penn</li>
<li>Duke</li>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
<li>Brown</li>
<li>Berkeley</li>
<li>University of Chicago</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>Northwestern</li>
<li>Hopkins</li>
<li>Georgetown</li>
<li>Washu</li>
<li>Rice</li>
<li>Notre Dame</li>
<li>Emory</li>
<li>Vanderbilt</li>
<li>UCLA</li>
<li>UVA</li>
<li>Carnegie Mellon</li>
<li>Tufts</li>
<li> Michigan</li>
<li>UNC- Chapel Hill</li>
<li>USC</li>
<li>Boston College, Brandeis, NYU</li>
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<p>Completely subjective though...</p>
<p>Thanks for resurrecting this thread. Oh, my god. I can feel a ****storm brewing.</p>