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But why should lay prestige matter? Establishing yourself as a premier school doesn’t actually reflect on the quality of your institution. This thread started out on the subject of “safety school” reputations as perceived by high-achieving high school students, not the reputations of these schools as perceived by the general public. Quibbling over which schools have “near-universal recognition” and which ones don’t is a waste of time.</p>
<p>Agreed, Dunbar, the discussion about near-universal recognition is really lame. A classmate of mine in the 80s received a graduate degree in Economics from Cambridge University (hint to the clueless, it’s in England). Before he was hired by the Treasury Dept., they requested an affidavit from a U.S. professor who told them that indeed Cambridge was a worthy university and that his degree was roughly equivalent to a U.S. master’s degree.</p>
<p>You can’t even make this stuff up! So it’s a world-renowned university that has been continuously running since the Middle Ages. But the U.S. Treasury Dept. needs reassurances. Who cares if some clueless people don’t know a school’s worth or reputation? There are clueless people that don’t know all sorts of things, and apparently some of them are working for the U.S. Treasury Dept.</p>
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