How HYP students and alum feel about the other Ivies

[Anonymous]

This is such an odd question. I expend no brainpower ranking grown adults in my mind as peers based upon the college they went to a decade or decades ago. If I do have to think about it, the ones I consider "peers" are the ones who went to the same university I did (an "HYP"), because we have that shared experience and might be able to spend five minutes playing "hey, do you know" so-and-so.

But either you went to HYP and are a snob or you went to the non-HYP school and have a weird inferiority complex. In either case, you're the one with issues.

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Anonymous wrote:At Wharton we didn’t consider ourselves to have any outside college peers.

No real Ivy offers an undergraduate business major. At Harvard, Yale and Columbia the business schools are exclusively devoted to graduate level education.

Wharton is also the #1 MBA program. Those other ones are not peers there either.

This doesn't contradict my point.

No idea what your point was. Wharton doesn’t care about the Ivy League. They are not our peers.

Wharton is rather prestigious, but the prestige is diminished by the fact that its graduates think higher of themselves than the rest of the world does. Classic self-inflicted wound.

Those who matter already understand.

The conceit turns an achievement of sorts into a display of insecurity. Put it together with the avoidance of any references to Penn and it's almost sad.

Hiring managers understand and your opinion is irrelevant.

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Anonymous wrote:At Wharton we didn’t consider ourselves to have any outside college peers.

No real Ivy offers an undergraduate business major. At Harvard, Yale and Columbia the business schools are exclusively devoted to graduate level education.

Wharton is also the #1 MBA program. Those other ones are not peers there either.

This doesn't contradict my point.

No idea what your point was. Wharton doesn’t care about the Ivy League. They are not our peers.

Wharton is rather prestigious, but the prestige is diminished by the fact that its graduates think higher of themselves than the rest of the world does. Classic self-inflicted wound.

Those who matter already understand.

The conceit turns an achievement of sorts into a display of insecurity. Put it together with the avoidance of any references to Penn and it's almost sad.

Hiring managers understand and your opinion is irrelevant.

Hiring managers try to screen out the obvious d-bags, and you and plenty of others from Penn fall into that category.

[Anonymous]

25 Fortune 500 CEOs attended Harvard as undergrads. 8 attended Penn.

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Anonymous wrote:At Wharton we didn’t consider ourselves to have any outside college peers.

No real Ivy offers an undergraduate business major. At Harvard, Yale and Columbia the business schools are exclusively devoted to graduate level education.

Wharton is also the #1 MBA program. Those other ones are not peers there either.

This doesn't contradict my point.

No idea what your point was. Wharton doesn’t care about the Ivy League. They are not our peers.

Wharton is rather prestigious, but the prestige is diminished by the fact that its graduates think higher of themselves than the rest of the world does. Classic self-inflicted wound.

Those who matter already understand.

The conceit turns an achievement of sorts into a display of insecurity. Put it together with the avoidance of any references to Penn and it's almost sad.

Hiring managers understand and your opinion is irrelevant.

Hiring managers try to screen out the obvious d-bags, and you and plenty of others from Penn fall into that category.

Tell us more about that chip on your shoulder.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:25 Fortune 500 CEOs attended Harvard as undergrads. 8 attended Penn.

Penn has most billionaire alumni. Harvard is ranked #3.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardjchang/2024/06/09/top-colleges-for-billionaires/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:anything who thinks this past age 20 is a real low IQ person

I'm an exited founder turned VC, and the bias towards the top ivies/MIT/Stanford/CalTech (even against the other ivies/Duke/etc.) is very real, at least in this world.

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Anonymous wrote:At Wharton we didn’t consider ourselves to have any outside college peers.

No real Ivy offers an undergraduate business major. At Harvard, Yale and Columbia the business schools are exclusively devoted to graduate level education.

Wharton is also the #1 MBA program. Those other ones are not peers there either.

This doesn't contradict my point.

No idea what your point was. Wharton doesn’t care about the Ivy League. They are not our peers.

Wharton is rather prestigious, but the prestige is diminished by the fact that its graduates think higher of themselves than the rest of the world does. Classic self-inflicted wound.

Those who matter already understand.

The conceit turns an achievement of sorts into a display of insecurity. Put it together with the avoidance of any references to Penn and it's almost sad.

Hiring managers understand and your opinion is irrelevant.

Hiring managers try to screen out the obvious d-bags, and you and plenty of others from Penn fall into that category.

Tell us more about that chip on your shoulder.

NP. Seemed straightforward to me. Your gaslighting is too obvious.

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Anonymous wrote:anything who thinks this past age 20 is a real low IQ person

Went to a recent Ivy League alumni schools event. The few Harvard folks in attendance were unbearable. Age was late forties to early 50s. Weird.

If you're still going to public harvard events 20-30 years after you graduated, there's a real good chance you are unbearable.
There was a guy in the area that's using his harvard.edu email address that he got in GRAD SCHOOL into his 50s., not even harvard college. Harvard university...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I went to Harvard, my husband went to Yale and my son is at Princeton. I'll settle for a wife from a lesser ivy or Stanford, but only if she's really pretty and comes from a wealthy family.

How does your husband feel about you taking a wife. Maybe check before you settle for one?

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Anonymous wrote:I went to Harvard, my husband went to Yale and my son is at Princeton. I'll settle for a wife from a lesser ivy or Stanford, but only if she's really pretty and comes from a wealthy family.

And was a state champion level athlete

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The only pretentious people I meet are MIT grads, outside the Ivy League but boy do they think they’re the smartest people no matter what. You can’t bring them back to civilization if you tried

Until they are in the present of Cal Tech grads, then watch their peepees shrivel up.

But yeah, compared to ivies, they are smarter than most of you. So just sign their paycheck and tell them to go do some math or something.

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Anonymous wrote:It seems to me that the graduates of HYP don't really see the other Ivy people as their peers.

I think they make some exception for Columbia, maybe Brown but never Cornell, Dartmouth or Penn.

Am I right?

I'm not even sure what this means. The folks I consider my peers are people I work with or who have chosen a similar or related occupation to mine. I, an alum of H, usually don't know and definitely don't care where they went to college.

90 % of my classmates at Princeton got another degree after Princeton. That additional degree is the degree that "matters" going forward in life.

That's only because Princeton Law School and Princeton medical school are so selective that noone's ever gotten in.

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Anonymous wrote:Princeton and don't judge people by where they went to school.

Honestly, I've never seen alumni hew together quite like princeton grads. You may not be judging people by where they went but you certainly seem to have a preference.

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Anonymous wrote:At Wharton we didn’t consider ourselves to have any outside college peers.

What about MIT? Your school's most alum is really proud of his family association with that school.

We hire them but they are not our peers.

They’re smarter

Salary says otherwise

I see someone didn’t get an Ivy degree for the education. What the hell does that have to do with intelligence?

At Wharton we really don’t care about the Ivy League. If you have a better measure of intelligence than compensation, let us know.

Maybe something like "Value added to society"? But that's another thread.

How do you quantify that? Perhaps the labor markets are already doing a good job.

Maybe the labor market does a pretty good job up to a point but do you really think the average wharton grad making 500K is SMARTER than the average Cal Tech professor making 200K?