After t75, does it hurt you?

[Anonymous]

Who gets to decide what t75 is?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who gets to decide what t75 is?

The company whose entire business model depends on rankings being real, and which wouldn’t exist if we stopped believing that institutions of higher education can be ordinally ranked.

[Anonymous]

I went to a school outside is the top t75 but has been steadily climbing in the rankings. As my school has climbed in the rankings, my life has gotten better with greater job prospects and more respect from peers. I can’t wait to see how what good things happen when my school breaks into the t75. I just hope they don’t change the ranking methodology again and ruin my life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I went to a school outside is the top t75 but has been steadily climbing in the rankings. As my school has climbed in the rankings, my life has gotten better with greater job prospects and more respect from peers. I can’t wait to see how what good things happen when my school breaks into the t75. I just hope they don’t change the ranking methodology again and ruin my life.

If your life is ruined, it won't be due to the rankings. It might be due to your anxieties and hangups, though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I went to a school outside is the top t75 but has been steadily climbing in the rankings. As my school has climbed in the rankings, my life has gotten better with greater job prospects and more respect from peers. I can’t wait to see how what good things happen when my school breaks into the t75. I just hope they don’t change the ranking methodology again and ruin my life.

If your life is ruined, it won't be due to the rankings. It might be due to your anxieties and hangups, though.

It’s the rankings…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I went to a school outside is the top t75 but has been steadily climbing in the rankings. As my school has climbed in the rankings, my life has gotten better with greater job prospects and more respect from peers. I can’t wait to see how what good things happen when my school breaks into the t75. I just hope they don’t change the ranking methodology again and ruin my life.

Wow, delusional. No one cares where you went to college and no one (aside from a handful of ranking nerds) knows how that college ranks. If it's not an Ivy or similar, it's just in the Other category, and that category has plenty of extremely successful and well-regarded people!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I went to a school outside is the top t75 but has been steadily climbing in the rankings. As my school has climbed in the rankings, my life has gotten better with greater job prospects and more respect from peers. I can’t wait to see how what good things happen when my school breaks into the t75. I just hope they don’t change the ranking methodology again and ruin my life.

Wow, delusional. No one cares where you went to college and no one (aside from a handful of ranking nerds) knows how that college ranks. If it's not an Ivy or similar, it's just in the Other category, and that category has plenty of extremely successful and well-regarded people!

I didn’t think ranking mattered either, but my life has improved as my school’s ranking has improved. It’s got to be the rankings.

[Anonymous]

Your troll posts are getting tiresome, OP.

[Anonymous]

Everyone on DCUM “it doesn’t matter where you go to college that’s a shallow concern”

Also everyone on DCUM “what test prep service should I use, and what hooks should I make sure my kids have, so they can get into HYPSM?”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Everyone on DCUM “it doesn’t matter where you go to college that’s a shallow concern”

Also everyone on DCUM “what test prep service should I use, and what hooks should I make sure my kids have, so they can get into HYPSM?”

... and probably often the same posters, under the guise of anonymity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So far: no one has come up with any concrete argument against this idea. Why be defensive without any concrete reasoning?

Is because it’s impossible to prove a negative. But I can tell you have no idea where my neighbors or most of my colleagues went to college. And the ones I do know is because they have a coffee mug or something, not because we sit and rank order colleagues based on matriculation. A person like that would be insufferable and would be ostracized in the work place.

[Anonymous]

I agree with OP but take it further.

Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg dropped out of a T1 because it hurt them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everyone on DCUM “it doesn’t matter where you go to college that’s a shallow concern”

Also everyone on DCUM “what test prep service should I use, and what hooks should I make sure my kids have, so they can get into HYPSM?”

... and probably often the same posters, under the guise of anonymity.

+10000 to this and the PP.

[Anonymous]

At the New neighborhood cocktail party going to a shit school with good sports is fine. Going to a fundamental religious school gives most UMC the ick.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So far: no one has come up with any concrete argument against this idea. Why be defensive without any concrete reasoning?

Is because it’s impossible to prove a negative. But I can tell you have no idea where my neighbors or most of my colleagues went to college. And the ones I do know is because they have a coffee mug or something, not because we sit and rank order colleagues based on matriculation. A person like that would be insufferable and would be ostracized in the work place.

This.

I have no idea where any of my friends went to undergraduate or graduate school unless I attended with them. It just is not relevant. Same with my colleagues and I work in management consulting. I couldn’t even tell you where my boss or all my direct reports went to school.