top 15 most prestigious universities

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but trust me, every single Texan knows, respects, and treats like Gods Rice and UT Plan II grads.

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<p>Kinda laughed when I read that. One of my best friends from high school is in the Engineering Honors program at UT and when I asked him why he wasn't in Plan II, he told me it was because he didn't know about the program until he moved into one of the Honors Dorms and that he wishes he had known about it earlier.</p>

<p>Most people in Texas, unless they're especially familiar with UT and/or their graduates, have never heard of Plan II.</p>

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first tier</p>

<p>UT Plan II (verrry selective Honors Program)
Rice
HYPSM

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<p>Just a few minor adjustments</p>

<p>UT Plan II/Business Honors/Engineering Honors
Rice
UT/Texas A&M
HYPSM
SMU (Only in Dallas)</p>

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<p>smu is not nearly as prestigious as rice (or ut honors pgrorams too I guess)</p>

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<p>honestly, I don't know what the big deal about Northwestern is.</p>

<p>it's not any more prestigious or hard to get into than Williams or Boston College or Rice or USC or Vandy, but some people worship it.</p>

<p>Also, it's pretty ridiculous to deify peopel that go to Harvard and Yale.</p>

<p>25 PERCENT of students at Harvard and Yale have below 2100 sats, which honestly is not very impressive.</p>

<p>I mean, you can't just assume that someone is a genius cuz he goes to a prestigious school.</p>

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<p>nw the same as USC?</p>

<p>LOL.</p>

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25 PERCENT of students at Harvard and Yale have below 2100 sats, which honestly is not very impressive.

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Someone's a bit pedantic.</p>

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<p>Cambridge
Oxford</p>

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<p>im not gonna lie, im fairly knowledgeable about colleges and i have no idea what vanderbilt is.</p>

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<p>"honestly, I don't know what the big deal about Northwestern is"</p>

<p>haha...yea honestly i don't know what the big deal about johns hopkins is ;p</p>

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<p>In the world:
Group 1: Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Oxford, MIT, Cambridge, Berkeley
Group 2: Princeton, Caltech, Columbia, Penn, Chicago, Michigan, Duke, Johns Hopkins </p>

<p>For undergad in the US:
Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, Yale, MIT, Caltech
Duke, Penn, Columbia, Dartmouth, Brown
Cornell, Berkeley, Rice, JHU</p>

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"honestly, I don't know what the big deal about Northwestern is"</p>

<p>*haha...yea honestly i don't know what the big deal about johns hopkins is *;p

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<p>For your information (FYI), JOHNS HOPKINS IS THE BEST SCHOOL IN THE COUNTRY. PERIOD. :D jk</p>

<p>Bias inherent since I obviously go to Hopkins lol.</p>

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<p>why does everyone say michigan and not ucla. theyre seriously like exactly the same lol.</p>

<p>whoa *** michigan has a 50.3% acceptance rate? is that right? thats ridiculous...ucla has less than half of that.</p>

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<p>The UCs also have a common app, so a lot of under-qualified students that normally wouldn't bother filling out a separate application/paying an extra application for an extra reach just have to check off a box.</p>

<p>Also, while the schools' departments are generally pretty close, there's a lot more fields where Michigan is far ahead than there are where UCLA is far ahead.</p>

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25 PERCENT of students at Harvard and Yale have below 2100 sats, which honestly is not very impressive.

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<p>Not that it matters, but 25 PERCENT of students or MORE at Harvard and Yale have a 2380 or above on their SATS</p>

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<p>The acceptance rate is the only reason why I can see that UCLA would be ranked ahead of Michigan. The common application that California allows should be taken into account when figuring out the overall quality of the university. That USNWR uses this data is another reason why I don't have more respect for their ranking system. I have seen the rankings of departments for Michigan compared to many other schools, and invariably their ratings are amongst the highest in academia in many disciplines. It's obscene that U-M gets penalized by unfair comparisons such as acceptance rates when they don't operate on a level playing field. By the way, Michigan's acceptance rate this past year was at 42%. It has been dropping steadily over the past three years.</p>

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<p>Globally (Not in any particular rank or order)</p>

<ol>
<li>Berkeley</li>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Cambridge</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>University of Pennsylvania</li>
<li>UCLA</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>University of Chicago</li>
<li>Oxford</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>JHU</li>
</ol>

<p>Domestic (U.S) (Not in any order or rank)</p>

<ol>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Duke</li>
<li>Berkeley</li>
<li>WUSTL</li>
<li>Northwestern</li>
<li>University of Chicago</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>University of Pennsylvania</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>Caltech</li>
</ol>

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<ol>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Cambridge</li>
<li>Yale</li>
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<p>Fail.</p>

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<p>He obviously likes Yale. :-)</p>

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<p>"Not that it matters, but 25 PERCENT of students or MORE at Harvard and Yale have a 2380 or above on their SATS"</p>

<p>Yeah, I know that. The point I was making is that you can't just automatically think that all Harv+Yale people are that impressive, because 25 PERCENT of students at Harvard and Yale have below 2100 sats, which honestly is not very impressive. </p>

<p>Seriously, every time someone goes "wow, he goes to Harvard or Yale," 25 percent of the time that person has below a 2100 sat, which isn't that impressive. </p>

<p>People need to stop automatically revering people that go the Ivies because the Ivies admit plenty of atudents who are subpar academically.</p>

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<p>Harvard, MIT, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Brown, Duke, Cornell, Columbia, Berkeley, John Hopkins, Dartmouth, Northwestern, Chicago, and Georgetown</p>

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<p>well to be official about this, Davidson is the "harvard of the south" but Chicago is better than Vandy, not to discredit vandy, its a great place, but not the most prestigious</p>