Why are Ivy League colleges considered prestigious?
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Well....Because employers prefer graduates of Ivy leage schools. They require higher grades to get in, cost more money to attend and seem to have teachers who know something about the subject they're teaching.\n\nhttp://www.daylon.com/mba
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Like anything else in life, you get out of it what you put in.  There are many, many successful people who didn't go to ivy league schools.  But they're also the ones who did more than what was expected of them.  The people that go the extra mile are the ones that tend to excel in whatever they wish to do.  Besides most of the folks who got into ivy league schools are there because of that extra 110 percent!
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First, I am not sure I understand your question.\n\nNext, from what I think you are trying to say, I think it is a barrier. \nWell, first off, they're just too darn expensive. In terms of recognition, most prestigious universities do not count the all of the units that you took. \n\nThere are a few universities that count the units that you've taken but these are few.
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It is prestigious academically.  Many lecturers also write books in their field of specialization.  The pay isn't the best because today's world just doesn't seem to care as much about knowledge as other areas (like sports).
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Not as important as your money.  If a college is comparing you to another student for admission then they are 5% important.  In addition,  they help you if you are seeking scholarships.
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any of the ivy league schools: harvard university, princeton university, yale university, cornell university, brown university, columbia university, university of pennsylvania, dartmouth college
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8: Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, Penn, and Yale.\nThe Ivy League is just an athletic conference made up of the top schools in the northeast in the late 1800s.  They have common practices though, such as no financial aid based on athletic merit.  This keeps them at the top of the ratings academically
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There are lots of reasons -- including the fact that MIT is more selective, has more money and its students get better jobs.\n\nBut PhD rankings are usually based more on the quality of the faculty.  MIT can hire and retain the best faculty.  They make all the other things happen.
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Unfortunately, the world is just not a fair place.  The person who graduated from a prestigious college with an advanced degree will always get the job.  I learned when I graduated that a bachelor's degree isn't worth the paper it's printed on when it comes to getting a job.  Less time and effort is expended by the employer if they hire someone with a master's or PhD. The worst from Harvard will always get paid more and get the better job than the person who graduated with honors from LCC (local community college).
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it depends where you are from. but the common notion is ivy-leagues and oxford or cambridge.  \n\nalthough they have academically high standards recognized around the world, think of other factors such as distance and cost. it also depends on your course because the money you spent on these universities might not payback in the future (ex. fine arts)... \n\nthere are also other prestigious universities in Asia. there are many developing asian countries such as japan, south korea, china, singapore, philippines that have very good academic standards.
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Popularity does not necessarily mean quality.\n\nThe only way you child will feel inferior for not attending a "rich kids" school is if YOU teach him to feel inferior about it. Most people never attended such schools, and feel perfectly fine about themselves.\n\nYou want to look for quality instruction, not "image," for his childhood schooling. If he gets quality of instruction, he will be able to attain high enough marks and scores on college admission tests, to be invited to attend colleges and universities that DO matter... Ivy League, or non-Ivy League but an extremely strong program in the career field he ends up interested in. It is at the university level that both the quality of the program AND the image of the college really matters for social status and future job prospects.\n\nLook closely at a variety of private preschools, including those catering to middle class clients. Look for quality... do they provide academic learning through play? Are the children engaged in guided activities through most of the day? Does the school respond to the child's individual developmental levels, both for those that need more time and those that have advanced quickly?\n\nI attended public school, and scored well enough on my college enterance exams to be offered full scholarships to two Ivy League and several other prestigious universities. My mother carefully "shopped"  by evaluating the available teachers each year and had me placed with the best ones in each school I attended. Due to a number of factors (one of which was that I was only 14 years old at the time I took my college enterance exams), it was decided that I would stay close to home, but I did get the offers.
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Between UC Berkley and Stanford, it would be easier to get into Berkley.  Small prestigious schools are hard to get into, if they were then they wouldn't be SMALL AND PRESTIGIOUS.
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any one of the ivy league
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Ivy League Schools:\n1. Harvard University (Cambridge, MA)\n2. Yale University (New Haven, CT)\n3. Princeton University (Princeton, NJ)\n4. Columbia University (New York, NY)\n5. Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH)\n6. Brown University (Providence, RI)\n7. University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PN)\n8. Cornell University (Ithaca, NY)\n\nNon-Ivy "Ivy Deans" Members:\n1. Stanford University (Stanford, CA) <--my school!!\n2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA)\n3. University of Chicago (Chicago, IL)\n\n(The "Ivy Deans" is a consortium of academic deans from 11 elite schools: the eight Ivy League universities as well as Stanford, MIT and Chicago.)
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Depends on what you want to study.  Some schools have good reputations due to research, but turn out not to be good schools for students, as the people with reputations don't do much teaching.  Some schools have reputations that were made 4-5 years ago and the reputations are no longer valid.  Yes, the Ivy League schools have good reputations, as do many others.  There are enough universities that you should be able to find one that does a good job teaching in your area of concentration and is right for you.
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I like Thomasfromia's concise answer. Of course it is not an ideal system, but it clearly has helped to overcome centuries of discrimination in educational admissions. All it means is to look at criteria other than test scores and grades in determining admissions, with the goal of a more diversified student body. This allows access to the "pie" to people that otherwise would be shut out. In turn, enlarging this access in the long term decreases economic and social inequities in our society. You might be surprised at how many affirmative action admits, when given the chance, become outstanding, productive citizens.\nSure, I'd rather not have it, but for the sake of our society, I'd rather have it than nothing. Ironically, though, we've always had a different form of affirmative action, one that allowed ill-prepared but wealthy students to get in above those better qualified. The most obvious example is the Ivy League legacy policy that let's in the offspring of the rich. Or how about the policy of "special admitting" athletes who otherwise wouldn't qualify? At least, if you get rid of it, get rid of all such favoritism.\nAs long as all of those who enter the university are required to complete the standards for graduation, I am happy to enlarge the pool of students who are given an opportunity.
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No, not even, necessarily the top ones. \nThe Ivy League is actually an athletic conference, consisting of:\nBrown University\nColumbia University\nCornell University\nDartmouth College\nHarvard University\nPrinceton University\nUniversity of Pennsylvania\nYale University\nThere are lots and lots of other private colleges and universities, of different qualities, that are not in the Ivy League.