这老美的眼光似乎毒过大号蚂蚁了 (个人感觉作者把Columbia和Penn说低了一点)
几个Top 州大与中小藤级其实差不多也是比肩的(各有千秋和绝活)。如果能付州内学费上学,推爸推妈或羊爸羊妈们就偷着乐吧
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- In terms of education quality, dozens of liberal arts colleges are better than at least three of the Ivies (Cornell, Columbia, and Penn).
- In terms of prestige, Stanford and MIT are dream schools as much as Harvard, Yale, and Princeton.
- Duke and UChicago have the same caliber of students as Brown, Columbia, Dartmouth, and Penn. In fact, Duke and UChicago get more super smart students than the lower Ivies since they dominate the South and Midwest while the lower Ivies always lose the top students in the Northeast to HYP.
- Rice, Johns Hopkins, Vanderbilt, Northwestern, and even Wash U are at least equivalent to Cornell.
- Georgetown and Notre Dame are dream schools for a considerable number of people because of their cultural significance.
- UVA carries more old money prestige than half of the Ivies.
- Berkeley and Michigan are world class research institutions.
- UCLA and NYU are top choices because of their location.
- The (military) service academies are highly respected for their rigorous education and the leadership qualities they instill in their graduates.
While HYP are still the top brands (as are Stanford and MIT), there are at least 15 schools that are as prestigious as the lower five Ivies.
(Source: Quora)