<p>Duke
Vanderbilt
The rest of the “Ivy League”
Stanford
MIT</p>
<p>By prestige… and international renown
[ol]
[<em>]Harvard
[</em>]Princeton
[<em>]Yale
[</em>]Stanford
[<em>]MIT
[</em>]California Berkley
[<em>]Columbia
[</em>]Upenn
[<em>]CalTech
[</em>]Brown
[<em>]Duke
[</em>]Cornell
[<em>]Vanderbilt
[</em>]Dartmouth (yes, I guess I am a bit anti)
[<em>]William and Mary
[</em>]UVA
[<em>]Rice
[</em>]JHU
[<em>]Notre Dame
[</em>]Northwestern
[/ol]</p>
<p>from Alabama
Harvard
Duke
Yale
Stanford
Princeton
Vanderbilt
Columbia
Brown
Dartmouth</p>
<p>The rest they probably don’t know or care about. I’m even iffy about Dartmouth, Brown and Columbia having recognition.</p>
<p>And what is the point of this exercise? How you do in college and life won’t depend on whether you went to a school that’s ranked as a bit more prestigious.</p>
<p>
I disagree about Caltech. I’d heard about it even before I started researching colleges, and I’m from North Carolina. </p>
<p>Hopkins, Dartmouth, Chicago, and Brown would not have been nearly as well-known as Caltech at my high school.</p>
<p>Name recognition for average joe sixpack and joe mcdonalds worker but not for Johnny Employer…</p>
<p>1.Harvard
2.Yale
3.Princeton
4.Stanford (these 4 are basically the same)
5.CalTech (MIT has a bigger name, but I think CalTech is harder to get in)
6.MIT
7.Columbia
8.UPenn
9.Duke
10.U of Chicago (from 6 to 10 are about the same)
11.Dartmouth
12.Brown
13.Johns Hopkins
14.Northwestern
15.Cornell
16.Rice
17.Wash U (Wash U is sooo overrated! It should be down here)
18.Vanderbilt
19.Notre Dame
20.Emory (Honestly, I don’t think Emory should be in Top 20. I’ve seen a lot of stupid kids going there.)</p>
<p>I’m in NC (but my parents are from New York and went to Princeton/Yale… factor all that in how you will):</p>
<p>1.Harvard
2.Yale
3.Princeton
4.MIT
5.Stanford
6.CalTech
7.Brown
8.Duke
9.Columbia
10.Chicago
11.Dartmouth
12.Penn
13.WashU
14.Northwestern
15.Rice
16.Cornell
17.Johns Hopkins
18.Emory
19.Vanderbilt
20.Notre Dame</p>
<p>Those are just the 20 that were given – if it were up to me, I’d include some LACs (Little 3 + Swat and Wellesley probably, maybe Vassar) and also (just because this is prestige and not legit rankings) NYU would go on there too.</p>
<p>1) Harvard
2) Yale
3) Princeton
4) Stanford
5) MIT
6) Columbia
7) Berkeley
8) UChicago
9) Dartmouth
10) UPenn
11) Caltech
12) Brown
13) Duke
14) Cornell
15) Georgetown
16) Wash.U
17) Johns Hopkins
18) Rice
19) Notre Dame
20) UCLA</p>
<p>I’m probably a little biased, as I’m attending in the fall, but I think Georgetown deserves to be in the top 20 over Emory, Vanderbilt and like schools! I think Caltech and WUSTL should be on the list, but I agree that they shouldn’t be as high as their US News rankings.</p>
<p>Oh yeah I agree with the addition of Georgetown too. You’re not biased.</p>
<p>Honestly, I don’t think you can place GT higher than Rice or Johns Hopkins. But I do agree that it’s a better school than Emory and that it’s been really underrated. It’s just that those two state schools that are MISPLACED really bother me. Although Berkeley and UCLA are the best state schools, I think they should be below 20. Well, actually there are a lot of schools you’ve misplaced. (UPenn below Dartmouth? Duke below Brown? May I ask where you got those ideas?) </p>
<p>I do admit my ranking is biased, but yours is just totally off except for a few…</p>
<p>^Yea you’re biased and obviously never left the east coast or been outside the country. Berkeley’s name surpasses at least 5 of the schools you have on you’re list. It should definitely be top 20. I grew up on the east coast and hardly ever heard of Emory, Notre dame (except being Catholic and football), Rice, WUSTL or Vanderbilt.</p>
<p>Oh man, the South is getting pounded in this thread</p>
<p>1) Harvard
2) Princeton
3) Yale
4) Stanford
5) MIT
6) Columbia
7) Dartmouth
8) Duke
9) Cornell
10) Johns Hopkins
11) Northwestern
12) University of Virginia
13) Brown
14) Penn
15) Georgetown
16) Berkeley
17) UChicago
18) UMichigan
19) UCLA
20) Vanderbilt</p>
<p>^^^^^^^^^^^While I like your list of including public schools, UVA is positioned way too high.</p>
<p>[ol]
[<em>]Harvard
[</em>]Princeton
[<em>]Yale
[</em>]MIT
[<em>]Stanford
[</em>]Amherst
[<em>]Williams
[</em>]Duke
[<em>]Columbia
[</em>]Swarthmore
[<em>]Dartmouth
[</em>]Brown
[<em>]Upenn (Wharton would be top 5)
[</em>]Cal
[<em>]Virginia
[</em>]Northwestern
[<em>]Johns Hopkins
[</em>]Georgetown
[<em>]Caltech (not joking)
[</em>]Umich
[li]UNC[/li][/ol]</p>
<p>1.Harvard
2.MIT
3.Stanford
4.Princeton
5.Yale
6.CalTech
7.Columbia
8.Duke
9.Northwestern
10.Chicago
11.Dartmouth
12.Penn
13.WashU
14.Brown
15.Rice
16.Cornell
17.Johns Hopkins
18.Emory
19.Vanderbilt
20.Notre Dame</p>
<ol>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>CalTech</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>Duke</li>
<li>Brown</li>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>Penn</li>
<li>Cal</li>
<li>Rice </li>
<li>Johns Hopkins</li>
<li>UCLA</li>
<li>UVa</li>
<li>Notre Dame</li>
<li>UNC</li>
<li>UMichi</li>
</ol>
<p>1) Harvard
2) Princeton
3) Yale
4) Stanford
5) MIT
6) CalTech
7) Columbia
8) Dartmouth
9) Brown
10) Cornell
11) California Berkeley
12) Penn
13) Duke
14) Chicago
15) Northwestern
16) Washington in St. Louis
17) California Los Angeles
18) Virginia
19) Johns Hopkins
20) Michigan</p>
<p>ahahah, this is the funniest thing ever. Why would one waste their time with something so messed up in the first place. Why rank the top 20 USNEWS by prestige, when guaranteed if you went to every single tenure prof at Harvard, or somebody crazy in the academic world like…say Noam Chomsky, they would tell you your list is complete BS. Without Berkeley, UCLA, and U Mich in there, ranking the “top 20 most prestigious universities” is an impossible task. UCSD would even been in there.</p>