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Anonymous wrote:If you divide the UT endowment by 8 schools + 5 medical centers it isn’t as impressive. Wouldn’t make the list.

That isn't the way the UT endowment works.

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The most prestigious LACs in my experience have been Barnard and Wellesley, not Williams and Amherst.

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I went to a top 5 LAC.

When it comes up in conversation I get two dramatically different reactions. It is always either “where is that?” Or “wow, you must be so very smart.”

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You people are nuts.

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Anonymous wrote:If you divide the UT endowment by 8 schools + 5 medical centers it isn’t as impressive. Wouldn’t make the list.

That isn't the way the UT endowment works.

Nobody said it works this way. The point was it just isn’t comparable.

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Anonymous wrote:Is someone from Duke admissions paying people on this thread? Duke isn't elite. I don't know anyone who considers it to be so, either.

True Dook is just a basketball school. Actually not anymore after ratface left, terrible season this year and they're only going to get worse from here.

Do you Duke haters have better things to do? It’s astounding how Duke lives in your head rent-free given your dislike for the school, it’s starting to sound vain. Would happily send my kid to Duke over many ivies

Duke and ND haters on this board..."Duke is a basketball school...ND is a football school." Yes they are, but they are also academic powerhouses. How amazing to have elite sports AND education.

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Anonymous wrote:Is someone from Duke admissions paying people on this thread? Duke isn't elite. I don't know anyone who considers it to be so, either.

True Dook is just a basketball school. Actually not anymore after ratface left, terrible season this year and they're only going to get worse from here.

Do you Duke haters have better things to do? It’s astounding how Duke lives in your head rent-free given your dislike for the school, it’s starting to sound vain. Would happily send my kid to Duke over many ivies

Duke alumni put a target on their back by obnoxiously trumpeting how good their school is. The response is never going to be great.

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Anonymous wrote:Harvard will fall out of top 10 unless they invest in STEM (CS) heavily for the next 10 years.

Harvard is already out of top 5 for many people.

Yes, right, and the evidence of that is their plummeting academic statistics for enrolled students, the precipitous drop in the number of applications, and the acceptance rate rocketing up.

/geez

This is turning out to be a great thread. It's high time people took a closer look at Harvard and Yale and their inexplicable rankings among the top 5 universities. Their mediocrity in STEM has already been noted. But take a gander at their freshman retention rates. Harvard is at 92 percent, which is below Auburn, Brandeis, and the Colorado School of Mines. Yale is even worse at 90 percent, which is worse than UC San Diego, the University of Dayton, and SUNY Stony Brook. Figures are from US News and World Report.

Tell me again why Harvard and Yale are considered top schools?

These lists are clearly composed by blue-haired wasps from the 1950s.

USNWR Top 20 Schools Freshman Retention Rates:

MIT 99%
Chicago 99%
Duke 98%
Northwestern 98%
Notre Dame 98%
Brown 97%
Cal Tech 97%
Berkeley 97%
Columbia 97%
Cornell 97%
Dartmouth 97%
Hopkins 97%
Rice 97%
UCLA 97%
Penn 97%
Stanford 96%
Wash U 96%
Princeton 94%
Harvard 92%
Yale 90%

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Wow! Based on retention rates, HYP are doing something wrong.

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Anonymous wrote:Is someone from Duke admissions paying people on this thread? Duke isn't elite. I don't know anyone who considers it to be so, either.

True Dook is just a basketball school. Actually not anymore after ratface left, terrible season this year and they're only going to get worse from here.

Do you Duke haters have better things to do? It’s astounding how Duke lives in your head rent-free given your dislike for the school, it’s starting to sound vain. Would happily send my kid to Duke over many ivies

Duke alumni put a target on their back by obnoxiously trumpeting how good their school is. The response is never going to be great.

I’ve literally never heard a Duke alum talk about their school outside the context of basketball… they have school pride for sure but not in a “we’re academically better than everyone” way

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Anonymous wrote:Is someone from Duke admissions paying people on this thread? Duke isn't elite. I don't know anyone who considers it to be so, either.

True Dook is just a basketball school. Actually not anymore after ratface left, terrible season this year and they're only going to get worse from here.

Do you Duke haters have better things to do? It’s astounding how Duke lives in your head rent-free given your dislike for the school, it’s starting to sound vain. Would happily send my kid to Duke over many ivies

Duke alumni put a target on their back by obnoxiously trumpeting how good their school is. The response is never going to be great.

I’ve literally never heard a Duke alum talk about their school outside the context of basketball… they have school pride for sure but not in a “we’re academically better than everyone” way

Lucky you.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow! Based on retention rates, HYP are doing something wrong.

Well maybe you should learn not to take statistics at face value and derive facile conclusions.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow! Based on retention rates, HYP are doing something wrong.

Well maybe you should learn not to take statistics at face value and derive facile conclusions.

What is your conclusion then? If covid was poorly handled, that remains relevant.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow! Based on retention rates, HYP are doing something wrong.

Well maybe you should learn not to take statistics at face value and derive facile conclusions.

What is your conclusion then? If covid was poorly handled, that remains relevant.

Yale tortured its students during covid. That is a fact.

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Anonymous wrote:Is someone from Duke admissions paying people on this thread? Duke isn't elite. I don't know anyone who considers it to be so, either.

True Dook is just a basketball school. Actually not anymore after ratface left, terrible season this year and they're only going to get worse from here.

Do you Duke haters have better things to do? It’s astounding how Duke lives in your head rent-free given your dislike for the school, it’s starting to sound vain. Would happily send my kid to Duke over many ivies

Duke alumni put a target on their back by obnoxiously trumpeting how good their school is. The response is never going to be great.

I’ve literally never heard a Duke alum talk about their school outside the context of basketball… they have school pride for sure but not in a “we’re academically better than everyone” way

Duke is bad but UVA grads take the trophy on being obnoxious and delusional in acting like UVA is top 5.