Stanford more prestigious? I don't think so.

floridadad55
Sat, 17 Mar 2012 19:47:54 +0000

I would say they are roughly equivalent.

My kid applied to both.

If he gets into both, I really wouldn’t care which one he went to. My “gut” feeling is that Stanford is slightly more “prestigious”. So I guess I must be one of those crazy people you refer to in your post. But we all have our own idea of what is “good”.

It might be noted that the future leader of France, who had his chances derailed by the incident with the hotel maid, sent his kid to Columbia.

If you want to be in NYC, you go to Columbia. If you want to be in California, you go to Stanford. This might be a bit of an over-simplication, but if you plan on working in asia one day, you might tend to go to Stanford. If you anticipate working in Europe, I would tend to lean toward Columbia.

One is not “better” than the other.

I wouldn’t pick one over the other just because one is slightly higher ranked in US News.