Ivy League Schools

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

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.

You may be telling the truth…but how do you know 5 different kids at all these schools and states and their college decisions?

I only know where my kid’s friends are attending and only after they offered it up…I have no idea what colleges they are turning down.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

You may be telling the truth…but how do you know 5 different kids at all these schools and states and their college decisions?

I only know where my kid’s friends are attending and only after they offered it up…I have no idea what colleges they are turning down.

1. College Roommate freshman year's kid x3 (we were in a quad)
2. One good friend's kid
3. Husband's investment partner's son

I know lots of results from other families, too, as the moms would text me with each acceptance.

[Anonymous]

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.

This is a wildfire engulfing the entire country and now spreading to other countries. The only schools that haven't caught the Columbia bug are the Liberty University types.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

You may be telling the truth…but how do you know 5 different kids at all these schools and states and their college decisions?

I only know where my kid’s friends are attending and only after they offered it up…I have no idea what colleges they are turning down.

1. College Roommate freshman year's kid x3 (we were in a quad)
2. One good friend's kid
3. Husband's investment partner's son

I know lots of results from other families, too, as the moms would text me with each acceptance.

People like to brag, with something real and something imaginary.
How did you know they were telling the truth?

[Anonymous]

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.

Which Ivy League schools, which majors, and which other schools?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My son has been accepted to a couple Ivy League schools and I just wanted to hear opinions from others, what are some of the benefits of an Ivy over another top 50 school?

It really depends what other top 50 schools you're talking about.

No benefit vs. other top 15-20 type schools.

Versus, say UM or UVA?

The Ivy grad will have a certain amount of additional "instant credibility" for life.

That's about it.

That would be if you stop at undergrad and don't gain any other life achievement which is unlikely. Otherwise your graduate degree and what you accomplish will dictate your "credibility in life"...

PP here. Fair point on the grad degree.

Didn't say "credibility in life"; said "credibility FOR life".

I know an Ivy grad who has failed at every turn, but still gets opportunities (job interviews, etc.) and commands a certain social respect that he would most assuredly not get with a degree from UM or UF.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Which Ivy League schools, which majors, and which other schools?

The benefits of an Ivy League education is the school and major don't matter that much.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is no "instant credibility for life" as stated by another poster for most Ivy league schools.

Princeton and U Penn-Wharton along with Harvard arguably provide the most assumed credibility.

But when one shares that he/she is a graduate of Brown, Penn (non-Wharton grads), Cornell, Dartmouth, Columbia, or Yale, thoughts other than credibility come to mind.

Broadly speaking, an Ivy League degree suggests that one is smart, hard-working,and ambitious--but, this is true for graduates of northwestern, Chicago, MIT, Stanford, JHU, Duke, WashUStL, Emory, Berkeley, Amherst, Swarthmore, Wellesley, the 3 main service academies, Georgia Tech, CS and engineering majors from many state flagships and many other schools. My assumption is that these non-Ivy grads are just as qualified as any Ivy grad except regarding U Penn-Wharton. I also assume that these non-Ivy grads choose not to pursue any Ivy League education.

PP here.

I sort of agree, but don't think that state school grads get the same presumption of being "smart, hard-working and ambitious" absent other tangible evidence of accomplishment (grades, career accomplishments, etc.).

I don't AGREE with this, but it holds true in my experience.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My son has been accepted to a couple Ivy League schools and I just wanted to hear opinions from others, what are some of the benefits of an Ivy over another top 50 school?

Parents can display the sticker on the back of their car and feel that they are better than those around them. 😉

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Which Ivy League schools, which majors, and which other schools?

The benefits of an Ivy League education is the school and major don't matter that much.

Exactly

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My son has been accepted to a couple Ivy League schools and I just wanted to hear opinions from others, what are some of the benefits of an Ivy over another top 50 school?

Parents can display the sticker on the back of their car and feel that they are better than those around them. 😉

This is harder than it sounds. Like, I REALLY want people to know my child is at Harvard, but it seems gauche to wear Harvard sweatshirts and have the bumper sticker. What should I do? I've started talking more about visiting Boston and stuff, but my Catholic friends all just think my kid is at Boston College (*gross*). Help!

[Anonymous]

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.

No worry. If you choose not to go to Penn, Brown, Dartmouth or Cornell, there will be thousands of kids happy to get the spots.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Biggest benefit is that I am able to work it into any conversation by the second or third sentence. I love the look on people's faces! Maybe I did go to UMass-Amherst but Chip is at Harvard, Karen. Suck it.

I think you meant "Chip is at a school in Boston."

No, only Chip says it that way. Mom wears the Harvard hat and sweater every day.