<p>VTBoy writes:" This is why I say global rankings are stupid. People from different countries have no idea how good your schools are. They just guess."</p>
<p>That’s really true. Most of my friends here in england only really know about Harvard and Stanford as far as unis in the states go. I was mentioning Princeton and one of my friends said “Oh that’s supposed to be good, right?” And most have never heard of Brown, Cornell, Columbia, Dartmouth or any of the other Ivy-League schools. You should know that although people in the states are obsessed with ivy-status not eveyone in the world is. It’s all relative. The inverse is that it’s nice to see that oxbridge worship is mainly confined to th uk and commonwealth…people my age over here are waaay too obsessed with the oxbridge name.</p>