<p>Actually I won’t be attending Vanderbilt. And I just got off a waitlist yesterday by the Ivys. How do I know so soon? College consuler =)</p>
<p>Congrats sweetlax!! Where are you going??</p>
<p>VANDERBILT. no doubt. when you go outside the realms of the northeast/new england region-those other two are barely recognizable. vanderbilt is global. check it.</p>
<p>cali-
Barely recognizable to who? The corner grocer or the professional community? Again, this seems to have become about name recognition, and in most professional communities (medical, law, banking, etc) the names of the smaller schools will be familiar. Perhaps not as familiar as a university with Division I sports teams, but certainly recognizable where it matters.</p>
<p>How about asking what the original poster wants:</p>
<p>Big city or small?</p>
<p>Research U or LAC?</p>
<p>North or south?</p>
<p>All these schools are fine. The poster will get a good education, go to grad school if desired, and ultimately get a job from any of the three. </p>
<p>Really. Prestige? They are all fine and prestige is totally in the eye of the beholder.</p>
<p>what’s funny is people say a school like Vassar/Middlebury/Carleton etc. is hardly recognizable because it is an LAC. Have you ever cracked open an issue of USNews? Believe it or not, employers, people in academia, prospective students, parents of prospective students, etc. all look at those rankings and see a school like Vassar ranked #11 in the nation among LACs. And yet you say it is not recognized? By who? The layman? Well, down here in Texas relatively few people are familiar with Vanderbilt - what’s your point?</p>
<p>Pomona (a LAC) is the Harvard of the West. Check out this T-Shirt <a href=“https://secure.pomona.edu/CoopStore/ts/xl-TS1101.shtml[/url]”>https://secure.pomona.edu/CoopStore/ts/xl-TS1101.shtml</a></p>
<p>jym626-zzzzzzzzt.</p>
<p>Wouldn’t Stanford be the Harvard of the West, Pomona the Amherst of the West? :)</p>
<p>cali_
Huh???</p>