Can anyone list these schools based on prestige

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<p>Please list in overall prestige (in the U.S.), then if possible prestige in biology</p>

<p>Colgate
Lehigh
Brandeis
NYU
W&M
Hamilton</p>

<p>Thank you</p>

2

<p>I think William And Mary would be at the top…i think</p>

3

<p>Colgate
Hamilton
W&M
Brandeis
Lehigh
NYU</p>

4

<p>Such rankings are debatable. See </p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/413821-sat-score-frequencies-freshman-class-sizes.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/413821-sat-score-frequencies-freshman-class-sizes.html&lt;/a&gt; </p>

<p>for two different attempts to rank colleges in order of applicant preference, and see which colleges on your list bubble up near the top.</p>

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<p>Prestige and renown are different things… NYU is the best-known but Colgate and W&M are probably known by their academic reputations.</p>

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<p>W&M/Colgate
Brandeis
Lehigh
Hamilton
NYU</p>

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<p>I’d put Lehigh at the bottom.</p>

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<p>I would say it’s harder to get into Hamilton than Lehigh, but the latter is ~3x as large so more will have heard of Lehigh. Similarly, historcially, NYU is probably easier to get into than Lehigh (maybe more recently it’s become closer to equal), but NYU is ~ 4x the size of Lehigh and if anyone has heard of NYC, they have inherently heard of NYU, so it also is more well know.</p>

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<p>These schools have regional reputations. In Virginia, and probably elsewhere in the South, for example, W&M would top this list, and a lot of people would know nothing about Lehigh, Colgate, or Hamilton. I don’t think prestige is the right criterion to use to rank this particular group of schools.</p>

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<p>Most people don’t know that W&M is one of only 8 colleges founded before 1766. If they did, that alone would cause it to be #1 of the group you listed.</p>

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<p>NYU/Brandeis
the rest</p>