<p>Stanford. </p>
<p>Yeah, I know I shouldn’t say it. But Stanford.</p>
<p>“Undergrad prestige = meaningless.”</p>
<p>Just a flat-out lie. Just one minor example is the fact that i-banking firms only hire people from Stanford, UCLA, or Berkeley, out of all the California schools. If you’re from anywhere else, it’s next to impossible. I know i-bankers and they’ve told me as much.</p>
<p>Sure, there are CC people doing well and Ivy grads doing awful. I know both types. But they are the exceptions, not the rule.</p>
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<p>Either you cannot read or you cannot understand what you read.</p>
<p>This topic is fundamentally idiotic.</p>
<p>And by the way, I hated Stanford’s weather and campus.</p>
<p>I’ve got to agree with Baelor on this one; it’s pretty damn useless. I mean, if you want to compare colleges on just one aspect, then fine. But when you start juggling a dozen different factors, no one is going to use the same criteria, so what’s the point? Also, your opinions don’t carry much weight because I doubt you guys have visited more than a handful of schools anyways (outside of CALI).</p>
<p>Most people in this thread will say the university they attend, especially those Class of 2014ers like myself who were admitted early. And what’s wrong with that? Trying to find the objectively “best” university in the world is not only nearly impossible, but ultimately meaningless. People should go where they best fit; who cares what’s the best? That said, Columbia ;)</p>
<p>I think the thread just means “hey, what’s your favorite university?”
Y’know, for fun. No big deal.</p>
<p>^EXACTLY</p>
<p>Baelor & panic take this thread too seriously. Do any of these threads really prove a point? No, it’s just fun discussion.</p>
<p>I don’t think I’m taking it too seriously. Just saying it’s kind of meaningless, that’s all.</p>
<p>Isn’t the answer always the one you went to, unless it was a safety? :D</p>
<p>Probably stanford</p>
<p>so i-banking firms hire kids with only undergraduate degrees in stealing money that attended UC-B,UCLA, and Stanford? interesting. if you can make BIG money with just an undergraduate degree that’s gotta tell you something’s up.</p>
<p>fortify, I agree with you that Stanford is the best school (although I am highly biased) but I can not believe that a Cal student said that. In fact, I had to check your post history just to see if you were a Stanford student who changed their location, but you are not.</p>
<p>What is the world coming to?! Next thing you know USNWR will give the first place spot to Chico State. At which point droves of kids on CC will withdraw their Harvard apps and apply to Chico.</p>
<p>don’t top i-banking firms also recruit from usc and claremont?</p>
<p>In alphabetical order:
Duke
Georgetown
Notre Dame
Stanford
Vanderbilt
Virginia
Wake Forest</p>
<p>I would pick one of those eight, but really, it is a very subjective question (and therefore impossible to get a consensus on).</p>
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<p>UNC should be on that list instead of or in addition to Duke, Virginia, and Wake. UNC has essentially the same academic prestige as UVA and Wake Forest but with much, much better athletic programs than any of the three schools.</p>
<p>UNC would have been my 9th school. I was trying to pick smaller schools though. </p>
<p>Also, I don’t think UNC’s athletic programs are <em>much</em> better. Certainly they are better, but Wake, UNC, and UVA all do well in the Directors Cup, granted UNC and UVA better, but if you consider how small Wake Forest is…</p>
<p>I would probably say Pomona. Its got a beautiful campus, awesome academics, great social scene (with the consortium) and a very happy student body. I havent come across even one bad review of the place! But that’s just me.</p>
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<p>Yeah, I guess that is true. Wake does astoundingly well for being as small as it is. Villanova has an enrollment that is close to Wake’s size, and they can barely support a division II football squad. Meanwhile, Wake has been making waves in the ACC, a well-respected BCS conference. In basketball the parity between the athletic programs of Wake and much larger schools becomes even more evident.</p>
<p>@leeznon:
how do you not like Ann Arbor?</p>
<p>^I can’t stand the cold.</p>