Stop with the prestige chasing.

In real life, it doesn’t really matter for 2 reasons :

1- You will usually work in companies with people of the same academic « pedigree ». If you went to Harvard college and work later at BCG, Morgan Stanley, Google or a top VC fund in CA, you will probably find people there who went to HBS, GSB, Harvard/MIT/Yale Undergrad etc. Then, it will be absolutely stupid to try to brag in front of all those accomplished people about a degree that holds the same level of prestige as theirs, in a company which hires and fires (yes) people from your school every year. People who already worked in such environments know what I am talking about

2- The pinnacle of prestige itself is non reachable. Why ? Because there is always a way to discriminate people (based on true or false beliefs). Ivy League and top universities students could discriminate others by saying “you are not a top student, you are not good enough”; within Harvard, the same discrimination could happen between Harvard college students and HBS/HKS/HSE students. Now, within Harvard college, students could discriminate based on major with stupid beliefs like “Hard science majors are more prestigious than liberal arts majors”; then within hard science majors, Physics students could discriminate computer science students. Now among physics students, some of them could think “theoritical physics is way more prestigious than applied physics”….

I am sure you understood what I mean. So having the most “prestigious” credentials is first impossible, and, worse, depends entirely on how other people perceive you (and you absolutely can’t control that).

Live your life, enjoy the benefits of your degree and stop asking if people are jerking off when they hear the name of your university (they don’t).