Rank These Colleges in Terms of Prestige

Cornell, UVA, Michigan, Northwestern, UNC, Boston U, Notre Dame, Vanderbilt, Wake Forest, UCLA, USC, Northeastern, Georgia Tech, UF, UT Austin

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Why would you even care about this? As per your own post history you're an ROTC student at a state school lmao. In terms of prestige though, its probably something like this.

most prestigious to least prestigious:

northwestern, cornell, vanderbilt, notre dame, usc, michigan, uva, ut, ucla, unc, then the rest

 

Why would you even care about this? As per your own post history you're an ROTC student at a state school lmao. In terms of prestige though, its probably something like this.

most prestigious to least prestigious:

northwestern, cornell, vanderbilt, notre dame, usc, michigan, uva, ut, ucla, unc, then the rest

Thinking about transfering 

 
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1. Cornell, Northwestern

1.5. Notre Dame, Vanderbilt

2. UMich, UVA, UCLA, USC, UT

3. WF, UNC, GT (good for STEM) 

4. UF, Northeastern

 

You’re trolling if you actually took any school on this list over Northwestern. Didn’t go there (went to the other Chicago T10) but have a close HS friend who went.

It’s the most prestigious on this list, places the best by far per capita (how easy it is to place), and places the best on the buyside and in top banking groups (quality of placement).

 

1. Cornell, Northwestern, Notre Dame

2. UVA, Michigan, Vanderbilt

3. UNC, Wake Forest, USC, UT Austin

4. BU, UCLA, Northeastern, GTech, UF

 

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