How HYP students and alum feel about the other Ivies

[Anonymous]

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?

[Anonymous]

I think they’re heavily overrated if you aren’t already wealthy. All of them are “peers,” but I also think many colleges are peers with the ivies that this forum would heavily disagree with

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

Who cares

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

I see my “peers” as specific individuals. I don’t assume that someone who attended a school in the same sports league as my undergrad school has more in common with me than someone who did not.

I did wince though, when someone who attended Cornell made a comment about “we of the Ivy League”.

Having said that, add Stanford to the list of peer schools.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who cares

The people who see Chevy Chase as more more refined and prestigious than Potomac. There's a few DCUMers like that.

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

* most famous alum

[Anonymous]

Double Y couple - we really don’t care where people graduated from. We work with plenty of extremely smart people who did not attend ivies and are doing the same work as we are, and meet lots of people doing different, interesting work who also did not attend ivies. To many extents, it doesn’t matter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Having said that, add Stanford to the list of peer schools.

Yes I would agree MIT and Stanford are peers of HYP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.