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Best, most prestigious school in the world?

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Originally Posted by Spinnaker
EdinAtlanta: Princeton University is a fine school, but it does not have a law school, so I don't understand your answer. Harvard, Yale and Cornell have the best law schools within Ivy League universities.
I'm sorry but you're mistaken. I have the J.D. to prove it.
 

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Originally Posted by Connemara
I'm sorry but you're mistaken. I have the J.D. to prove it.
On the way back from a recent trip to Cleveland, I sat next to this incredibly erudite and well-spoken Brown undergrad. She was soon to transition to a joint MPA/J.D. from Princeton, and of course, because Princeton does not have a school of jurisprudence, the JD component would be handled by Yale. ~ H
 

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Since the OP asks about the world, rather than the US, it might be worth him/her noting that when Harvard was founded in 1636, Oxford had been a leading seat of learning for over 500 years. Money does not equal prestige.
 

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Originally Posted by Piobaire
I won't be bringing mine this spring. Too expensive and delicate to bang around...plus I haven't played much in the last 2 years.
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Pipes are loud! Instrument of War and all that
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Didn't know you actually are a piper. That is pretty awesome!
Originally Posted by Huntsman
On the way back from a recent trip to Cleveland, I sat next to this incredibly erudite and well-spoken Brown undergrad. She was soon to transition to a joint MPA/J.D. from Princeton, and of course, because Princeton does not have a school of jurisprudence, the JD component would be handled by Yale. ~ H
 

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Originally Posted by Huntsman
Didn't know you actually are a piper. That is pretty awesome!

I'm surprised you didn't know. He's been trying to lead the rats out of town for years.
 

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Originally Posted by Dakota rube
I'm surprised you didn't know. He's been trying to lead the rats out of town for years.

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Originally Posted by Dakota rube
I'm surprised you didn't know. He's been trying to lead the rats out of town for years.

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Low acceptance rates are as much of an artifact of the size of the pool of applicants who think they have some shot of getting in as it is about the intrinsic difficulty of meeting a difficult set of standards.

What you really want is something that has an acceptance rate of 100% where people who have no chance are so dismayed that they do not even attempt to apply.

There are pre-collegiate independant schools around Boston where the non-relation/non-legacy admissions rate is 0%, yet hundreds, even thousands apply out of lack of inside knowledge. Such schools typically mount collegiate-level admissions efforts only to give the impression of merit selectivity. It's really quite a show. I assume the same is true in other large cities.

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Of course it's Cambridge, England, why? One word; Newton. Also without Cambridge, there would be no Harvard.
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Originally Posted by George
Of course it's Cambridge, England, why? One word; Newton. Also without Cambridge, there would be no Harvard.
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The first two presidents of Harvard, Dunster and Chauncy, went to Cambridge...Magdelene and Trinity respectively. The third, Hoar, was the first president to be graduated from Harvard College...but then he went to Cambridge for his advanced degree.

Harvard himself went to Cambridge as well...Emmanuel.

That being said, Brown University is the more prestigous since it graduated Foo and RJ.


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Originally Posted by audiophilia
LOL

Yes, I know, Prof. Zimbalist!

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I'm finished my studies at Curtis now. That's Prof. Tabuteau for me (oboe, aka the misery stick)!
 

George

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Originally Posted by voxsartoria
The first two presidents of Harvard, Dunster and Chauncy, went to Cambridge...Magdelene and Trinity respectively. The third, Hoar, was the first president to be graduated from Harvard College...but then he went to Cambridge for his advanced degree.

Harvard himself went to Cambridge as well...Emmanuel.

That being said, Brown University is the more prestigous since it graduated Foo and RJ.


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...and without Harvard there wouldn't be a Yale

There's a connection between Yale and Chester in England but I can't remember what it is.

Brown? Of that, I know nothing, except that it's a colour.
 

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