| But who cares about layman prestige? Your potential boss at that hedge fund whachamacolit (art major here, lol) certainly doesn't. So neither should you. Want to impress truck drivers (i have said this 10,000 times on this board), go to harvard. If you want to impress someone who is actually going to influence your future? Go to any of a dozen (if not more) other schools.
But beyond the measure of prestige is the measure of quality. Sure, HYPSM probably have the most "prestige" in the country, but that by no means makes them the best, ESPECIALLY for undergraduate education.
Arguing between Harvard and Yale or Harvad and Brown or Harvard and Duke or Harvard and Williams or Harvard and Swarthmore (I'll stop but I can clearly go on for paragraphs) is like arguing between that Sony 71" plasma HDTV and that Sony 72" plasma HDTV. IT DOESN'T MATTER! Within a certain range of schools you will get the same quality of education, so find a place that fits and screw the rest. This thread is stupid. And if I wasn't so bored I probably wouldn't bother. But as the case is....lol
Another thing, is prestige within a certain major. Harvard and MIT are great schools, but for example, an engineering degree from MIT will go farther in the land of prestige. That's not to say Harvard doesn't have a great engineering program -- it does. So unless you're such a prestige monger that you can think of nothing but how cool it will be to impress the mean teacher from high school who thought little of you, his dog, his dog's grandma, and his dog's gradma's chew toy, with his fancy degree, pick the school that fits you better. Period. |