Something I don’t see mentioned a lot… short of Ivies, CalTech, etc, a lot of prestige is regional and relative. One person’s prestige is another’s safety. Some of the hardest schools to get into are much less known across the country, where you may be applying for jobs upon graduation. Don’t depend upon what your peers are talking about, or what was true when your father was applying to school.
Look at graduation and job placement rates in your field. A few percentage points, by the way, is not worth an extra 100k of debt.