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The "Super Six" of American education are widely considered to be Stanford, Harvard, Princeton, Yale, MIT, and CalTech. If you could, please tell which country you are from and rank the above six schools in order of reputation/prestige in your home country. Also, state whether you believe this ranking to hold true for just your country or for your entire continent. Thank you.

By Alejandro (Alejandro) on Monday, June 07, 2004 - 11:20 pm: Edit

I'm posting from Mexico...here goes what people here will consider their ranking

1. Harvard
2. Yale
3. MIT (mostly because of Good Will Hunting)
4. Princeton
5. Stanford
600000. CalTech

Not sure in the rest of the continent but i would imagine it to be the same in all of latin america

By Howdydoody (Howdydoody) on Monday, June 07, 2004 - 11:35 pm: Edit

Would you say the gaps are pretty huge...is there a big difference between Yale or Princeton or Stanford, or would you get a strong, positive reaction mentioning any of those three?

By Binarystar (Binarystar) on Tuesday, June 08, 2004 - 03:16 am: Edit

I'll give you my parents' perspectives, since they have the more typically Korean opinion on the matter.

1. Harvard and MIT
2. Stanford
3. Yale
4. Princeton
5. Caltech

By Whizkid (Whizkid) on Tuesday, June 08, 2004 - 03:23 am: Edit

India -->

1.MIT
2.Harvard
3.Caltech (founder of Hotmail(Sabeer Bhatia) went there and is in the news all the time for his affairs)
4.Yale
5.Stanford
6.Princeton

By Howdydoody (Howdydoody) on Tuesday, June 08, 2004 - 03:41 am: Edit

Yale above Stanford in India? You sure about that? All my Indian friends' parents can talk about are Harvard and Stanford, and I am in the Northeast!

By Whizkid (Whizkid) on Tuesday, June 08, 2004 - 04:40 am: Edit

Well, yeah my bad.. Yale and Stanford should be swapped in the list. There has to be a bias towards Stanford because India has more techies than artsies going abroad.

I came to Canada from India 2 years ago for undergrad :-)

By Foreignboy (Foreignboy) on Tuesday, June 08, 2004 - 06:07 am: Edit

Malaysia:

1. Harvard
2. Stanford/MIT
3. Yale
4. Princeton
Unlisted: Caltech (over here no one even knows what Caltech is)

By Foreigngirl (Foreigngirl) on Tuesday, June 08, 2004 - 06:29 am: Edit

Germany:

1. Harvard
2. Yale
3. Princeton
4. Stanford
5. MIT (if anybody even knows it here)

Caltech--> same as Foreignboy mentioned....nobody knows anything about Caltech

By English_Girl (English_Girl) on Tuesday, June 08, 2004 - 06:52 am: Edit

England:

1. Harvard
2. Yale
3. Princeton
4. Stanford
5. MIT
6. Caltech

As other people have said, no-one here has really heard of caltech. I hadn't until I came on these boards.

By Whizkid (Whizkid) on Tuesday, June 08, 2004 - 03:52 pm: Edit

wierd no one knows about Caltech. It is the best tech school in the world after MIT.

By 007 (007) on Tuesday, June 08, 2004 - 04:00 pm: Edit

UAE (Dubai):

1. MIT / Harvard
2. Stanford
3. Princeton
4. Yale
5. Caltech

By Rtkysg (Rtkysg) on Wednesday, June 09, 2004 - 01:38 am: Edit

Whizkid, I guess it is no surprise as most people are no techie

By Alejandro (Alejandro) on Wednesday, June 09, 2004 - 12:27 pm: Edit

Actually, I asked some of my friends here in Mexico that are going to (or already are in) college to get an engineering/techie degree and not one of them knew CalTech

By Rtkysg (Rtkysg) on Wednesday, June 09, 2004 - 01:01 pm: Edit

That's quite weird, since Caltech is the school with the closest affiliation with NASA and hardest to get in ... perhaps after Harvard. May be, it is just famous amongst the nerd and science/Engrg passionate people