top 15 most prestigious universities

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Certainly. Just look at the displaced Tulane students, who not only survived but thrived at the Ivies.</p>

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<p>What displaced Tulane students?</p>

<p>If they were displaced, how did they get to go to Harvard with such low test scores?</p>

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<p>I’m looking for good colleges to go to if I’m intrested in Nanotechnology. Can anyone help me?</p>

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<p>anyone that puts WUSTL on this top 15 most prestigious school list is a n00b.</p>

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<p>I’m looking for good colleges to go to if I’m interested in ham. Can anybody help me?</p>

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Perhaps [Hamline</a> University](<a href=“http://www.hamline.edu/][color=black][I][B]Ham[/B][/I]line”>http://www.hamline.edu/). :)</p>

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<p>Hmm, Lemme see…</p>

<ol>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>Univ. of Chicago</li>
<li>Berkeley</li>
<li>UPenn</li>
<li>Brown</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>Georgetown</li>
<li>Johns Hopkins</li>
<li>Duke</li>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
</ol>

<p>I’m going to Georgetown, so I might’ve ranked it higher than normal, but I’ve gotten a lot more recognition and impressed noises out of people than I anticipated!</p>

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<p>This isn’t really scientific or whatnot, but ask any kid at my high school up here in St. Paul what the top 10 universities are and you’ll probably get a list like this:</p>

<p>1 Notre Dame
2 Harvard
3 Yale
4 Stanford
5 Princeton
6 MIT
7 Northwestern
8 Columbia
9 Georgetown
10 Wisconsin</p>

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<ol>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>Univ. of Chicago</li>
<li>Berkeley</li>
<li>UPenn</li>
<li>Brown</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>Georgetown</li>
<li>Johns Hopkins</li>
<li>Duke</li>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
</ol>

<p>1-6 are legit. 7 and 8 are wrong. UChicago is not prestigious at all, honestly, and noone is extremely impressed with Berkeley. Dartmouth should be higher, like around 10th.
EVERYONE knows about Dartmouth because of Superbad.</p>

<p>Seriously, the ONLY reason peopel actually know what UChicago is is because of the USNews rankings. That’s it.</p>

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<p>so like

  1. Harvard
  2. Yale
  3. Stanford
  4. Princeton
  5. MIT
  6. Columbia
  7. Penn
  8. Duke
  9. Brown
  10. Dartmouth
  11. Cornell
  12. Wash U
  13. Hopkins
  14. Northwestern
  15. Chicago</p>
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<p>Seriously, the ONLY reason peopel actually know what UChicago is is because of the USNews rankings.</p>

<p>Every single person in higher academia has heard of the University of Chicago.</p>

<p>Everyone needs to stop rehashing USNWR rankings and think about what it means for an institution to be reputable and respected.</p>

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<p>UChicago is a fantastic school. Vanderbilt is too. Schools whose graduates are gainfully employed in tough economic times are all prestigous… period. Please try to keep that in mind as you bash one another with quotes when some of you are not even admitted to any of these schools yet.</p>

<p>I am the parent of a freshman in college as well as a senior in high school. I am also a graduate of Bowdoin and a professional school at Harvard.</p>

<p>As I read these threads which I admit to enjoying, I wonder sometimes if some of you are familiar with the phrase “You can’t eat prestige” since it may help demystify/dismantle the top 15 prestigious universitities for you. IMHO the top 15 most prestigious universities are any that raise people up and help people find and keep their jobs :-)</p>

<p>One man’s Ivy is another’s man’s prestige. Why must this be so snobby?</p>

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<p>1) Harvard
2) Princeton
3) Yale
4) Stanford
5) MIT
6) Columbia
7) UPenn
8) Duke
9) Cornell
10) Chicago
11) Dartmouth
12) Wash U
13) Berkeley
14) Brown
15) Georgetown</p>

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<p>“Every single person in higher academia has heard of the University of Chicago.”</p>

<p>UChicago only got slightly selective within the last year or so.</p>

<p>It’s acceptance is a veeery high (compared to other top schools), 27 percent! And a year or 2 ago it was 40 percent! A UChicago degree is a little less difficult to attain as a Rice or Northwestern or Hopkins degree, so why should it be so much more highlyregarded? Smae with Berkley, ridiculously low SAT averages. </p>

<p>Caltech should also be in the top 15 that place is the ultimate nerd school lol.</p>

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<p>WashU above Berkeley, Brown, and GTown… lol :smiley: Cornell above Dartmouth? LOL Where is Hopkins and Northwestern?</p>

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<p>Theendusputrid, prestige and selectivity aren’t mutually exclusive. Some universities are prestigious because of the quality of the faculty and departments. Chicago is prestigious because it has the most storied Economics department on Earth, more Nobel Prize winners have been affiliated with Chicago than with any other US university and finally, because many of its other departments are very highly recgarded, particularly the Social Sciences and the Physical Sciences. Of course, Chicago’s top ranked Law and MBA programs add to the prestige.</p>

<p>Cal has its own brand of prestige which goes beyond SAT scores of undergraduate students. No other university has all of its departments ranked among the top 5 in the nation. Cal’s faculty has to be one of the top 2 or 3 on Earth.</p>

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<p>Dartmouth is slightly better academically, but I still think Cornell is a more prestigious name. Wash U has about the same acceptance rate as Berkeley, Brown, and GTown, with higher SATs and ACTs.</p>

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The discovery of C-14 dating, the Miller-Urey experiment, the proposal of the nuclear shell model, the discovery of REM sleep, and the first human-induced nuclear reaction are pretty good indicators that Chicago could mop the floor with most universities.</p>

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<p>It would accomplish more for all of you to argue with your shadows.</p>

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<p>Well first of all it seems kind of silly debating which schools in the top 25 are better. They are all great and very well respected, they are all good for very different things and it just depends on what kind of person you are. Any differences are too small. :)</p>

<p>My list</p>

<ol>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>University of Chicago</li>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
<li>University of Pennsylvania</li>
<li>Brown University</li>
<li>Duke University</li>
<li>Georgetown</li>
<li>Notre Dame</li>
<li>Johns Hopkins</li>
<li>UC Berkeley</li>
</ol>