Ivy League Schools

[Anonymous]

When our Blaine got into an Ivy League school I had the gardeners cut all of the ivy off of our back property divide, brought it out to the front property gates and spelled out the school name in Ivy vines. I thought that was far more understated than the tacky yard signs (plus, those are much too small and you can’t see our lawn from the driveway up to the house).

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Anonymous wrote:Two benefits:
1. more doors open when it comes time to look for a job - unless the folks at Columbia tarnish the reputation of the entire Ivy League.

2. benefit from grade inflation, if you graduate with anything less tan a 3.7 you have done something wrong.

Not all Ivys grade inflate, so choose carefully if grade inflation is your goal. At the one I attended, in many years not even the valedictorian graduates with a 4.0.

I think only Cornell and Dartmouth offer genuine grades at present. The rest of the Ivy League has definitely earned their reputation for grade inflation.

That's not what I experienced. This just showed how people talked with no real knowledge.

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Anonymous wrote:All of the Ivies are great, but I think only Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Wharton are really differentiated and worthy of premium over a great state flagship.

For example, the merits of paying full tuition for Penn, Brown, Dartmouth or Cornell over in-state UVA is very ambiguous.

depending on major though. For instance, I would pay full-pay Georgetown for a kid in SFS. It's unprecedented--better than Ivies.

I don't think "unprecedented" means quite what you think it does.

Never in the history of the world has there been such a foreign service school as they now have at Georgetown.

well to be fair--it's true for the US. lol

SFS was founded in 1919 — 100 years ago — to prepare the U.S. to engage on the global stage and has been preparing future leaders to make the world safer, more equitable, more prosperous, and more peaceful ever since. Fr. Edmund A. Walsh’s vision was a school that would prepare students for all major forms of foreign representation — whether commercial, financial, consular or diplomatic. The War Department (now the Department of Defense) requested Walsh's participation on a board comprised of five educators who designed the academic program for the Student Army Training Corp. The Training Corp educated new military personnel to prepare for America’s entry into the First World War.

This experience drew his attention to the lacking American education in diplomacy, which helped shape Fr. Walsh’s conception of the SFS. He realized Georgetown University, with its DC location and values of service, would be the ideal home for the United States’ first school in international affairs.

Surely you can do better than just cut and paste from the PR on the Georgetown SFS web page.

On second thought, maybe you can't.

[Anonymous]

I went to
Harvard. i would no longer send my kids there or any of the ivies. i want them to get an education not political indoctrination from the extreme left. Both are going to either Canada or Oxford ( already accepted)

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Anonymous wrote:All of the Ivies are great, but I think only Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Wharton are really differentiated and worthy of premium over a great state flagship.

For example, the merits of paying full tuition for Penn, Brown, Dartmouth or Cornell over in-state UVA is very ambiguous.

depending on major though. For instance, I would pay full-pay Georgetown for a kid in SFS. It's unprecedented--better than Ivies.

I don't think "unprecedented" means quite what you think it does.

Never in the history of the world has there been such a foreign service school as they now have at Georgetown.

well to be fair--it's true for the US. lol

SFS was founded in 1919 — 100 years ago — to prepare the U.S. to engage on the global stage and has been preparing future leaders to make the world safer, more equitable, more prosperous, and more peaceful ever since. Fr. Edmund A. Walsh’s vision was a school that would prepare students for all major forms of foreign representation — whether commercial, financial, consular or diplomatic. The War Department (now the Department of Defense) requested Walsh's participation on a board comprised of five educators who designed the academic program for the Student Army Training Corp. The Training Corp educated new military personnel to prepare for America’s entry into the First World War.

This experience drew his attention to the lacking American education in diplomacy, which helped shape Fr. Walsh’s conception of the SFS. He realized Georgetown University, with its DC location and values of service, would be the ideal home for the United States’ first school in international affairs.

Surely you can do better than just cut and paste from the PR on the Georgetown SFS web page.

On second thought, maybe you can't.

Tell us where you went to school, if you went to school, then?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I went to
Harvard. i would no longer send my kids there or any of the ivies. i want them to get an education not political indoctrination from the extreme left. Both are going to either Canada or Oxford ( already accepted)

+2000

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Anonymous wrote:All of the Ivies are great, but I think only Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Wharton are really differentiated and worthy of premium over a great state flagship.

For example, the merits of paying full tuition for Penn, Brown, Dartmouth or Cornell over in-state UVA is very ambiguous.

depending on major though. For instance, I would pay full-pay Georgetown for a kid in SFS. It's unprecedented--better than Ivies.

I don't think "unprecedented" means quite what you think it does.

Never in the history of the world has there been such a foreign service school as they now have at Georgetown.

well to be fair--it's true for the US. lol

SFS was founded in 1919 — 100 years ago — to prepare the U.S. to engage on the global stage and has been preparing future leaders to make the world safer, more equitable, more prosperous, and more peaceful ever since. Fr. Edmund A. Walsh’s vision was a school that would prepare students for all major forms of foreign representation — whether commercial, financial, consular or diplomatic. The War Department (now the Department of Defense) requested Walsh's participation on a board comprised of five educators who designed the academic program for the Student Army Training Corp. The Training Corp educated new military personnel to prepare for America’s entry into the First World War.

This experience drew his attention to the lacking American education in diplomacy, which helped shape Fr. Walsh’s conception of the SFS. He realized Georgetown University, with its DC location and values of service, would be the ideal home for the United States’ first school in international affairs.

Surely you can do better than just cut and paste from the PR on the Georgetown SFS web page.

On second thought, maybe you can't.

Tell us where you went to school, if you went to school, then?

An actual Ivy, not an Ivy wanna-be like Georgetown.

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Anonymous wrote:I went to
Harvard. i would no longer send my kids there or any of the ivies. i want them to get an education not political indoctrination from the extreme left. Both are going to either Canada or Oxford ( already accepted)

You sound like someone that wants to just save $$$s couched in some moral stance.

You know there are 3000 other US colleges your kid could attend. Sounds like you think the entire US system is broken.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I went to
Harvard. i would no longer send my kids there or any of the ivies. i want them to get an education not political indoctrination from the extreme left. Both are going to either Canada or Oxford ( already accepted)

+2000

Great! Far too many kids apply there already.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I went to
Harvard. i would no longer send my kids there or any of the ivies. i want them to get an education not political indoctrination from the extreme left. Both are going to either Canada or Oxford ( already accepted)

You’ll find plenty of the same at Canadian Universities. I’m a dual citizen. Will likely be sending my kid to one. Great schools, less of a lottery to get in, better price.

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Anonymous wrote:I went to
Harvard. i would no longer send my kids there or any of the ivies. i want them to get an education not political indoctrination from the extreme left. Both are going to either Canada or Oxford ( already accepted)

Why would you think students at Oxford or schools like McGill are any less left-leaning than students at Ivies? For a former Harvard student, you don't sound very worldly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I went to
Harvard. i would no longer send my kids there or any of the ivies. i want them to get an education not political indoctrination from the extreme left. Both are going to either Canada or Oxford ( already accepted)

Perhaps because you know they won’t get in.

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Anonymous wrote:I went to
Harvard. i would no longer send my kids there or any of the ivies. i want them to get an education not political indoctrination from the extreme left. Both are going to either Canada or Oxford ( already accepted)

Why would you think students at Oxford or schools like McGill are any less left-leaning than students at Ivies? For a former Harvard student, you don't sound very worldly.

+ 1,000

Spot on.

[Anonymous]

I went to Harvard too. I stopped giving them money.

The only reason I see to go to Harvard now is because Harvard still has the best pipeline to top banking and consulting firms, but increasingly other schools are catching up. I do think that if this pipeline gets weaker, Harvard prestige will drop.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think this is a legit post. Why? Because you're a day before your kid needs to commit. But I will say I know 5 different kids from 5 different schools (3 diff states) who are turning down ivy leagues for other schools because their major is stronger elsewhere.

I’ve come to believe that a lot of these posts come from freelancers who are trying to crowdsource brainstorming.