At what HHI are you willing to pay for an ivy league school

[Anonymous]

And/or on the student.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Harvard undergrad is weird-- there are definitely benefits to being on a wealthy campus with bright students but much of the teaching is done by grad students not research professors. Biggest thing you get out of it is a name and a sense of entitlement.

Bingo

So do you two know this because you are entitled a-holes who got nothing but a brand name out of your Harvard education? Or are you opining about an experience you haven't had?

I went there. Bow down, bitches!

[Anonymous]

Me (the PP you're responding to) too. And, actually, I feel sorry for you because there was so much more to be had from the experience than what you took away from it.

[Anonymous]

Brown hiking tuition and fees 4.4% to $67,439.

Ouch.

[Anonymous]

College costing $70,000 a year is crazy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Harvard undergrad is weird-- there are definitely benefits to being on a wealthy campus with bright students but much of the teaching is done by grad students not research professors. Biggest thing you get out of it is a name and a sense of entitlement.

I went there and this is totally untrue. Maybe in the past, but not in the last 10 years.

Almost all of the instruction I got was from actual tenure-track professors.

I went there too and disagree with you. Maybe it depends on major.

I wasn't in one of the huge majors like Gov't. And I wasn't Pre-Med.

[Anonymous]

My Ivy freshman has one large class taught by professor, and three small classes (10-20 students) where he knows his professors well. No graduate assitants in his classes. There is lots of individual attention and resources for every imaginable activity. He already has an offer for a fascinating paid internship this summer. This compares very favorably with my experince at Berkeley. We make 250K and pay full freight except for the money DC earns working on campus. Glad to do it. My DC absolutley loves his school. We live very simply: old cars, small house, local vacations. Education is what is important to us.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow. I really do not understand the obsession with Ivy League schools. You should be focused on what school is best for your child's area of interest, not some arbitrary athletic conference. My kid, for example, was interested in engineering. I am also an engineer and know what the different schools have to offer. With the exception of Cornell, it would have been mind bogglingly stupid to focus on Ivy League schools because engineering is not their strong suit. Outside of Caltech/MIT/Stanford, the most sought after engineers, at least at my company, come from places like Purdue and U of Illinois. Certainly not Harvard and Yale.

Princeton, Brown and Northwestern have legit engineering departments. You ever been to Purdue? Maybe your son can marry some hillbilly girl. And Illinois? Maybe he can marry a Chinese international girl who can't speak English.

So, if you don't go to an Ivy you are a hillbilly? Are you drunk?

Everyone knows that all 6.597 million Indiana residents and all 40,000 at Purdue are hillbillies. Do I really need to spell it out for you?

Actually, I have a friend who lives in Indiana and he graduated from Ivy schools. He is not a hillbilly. But carry on with your stereotyping and over-generalizing.

[Anonymous]

Your new 60K Audi is a status symbol. Your one point whatever million dollar house in your tony enclave is a status symbol. An Ivy degree is a status symbol your kids get to walk around with for the next 50 years, and you get to brag about for the rest of your time on Earth.

There are far bigger wastes of money than an elite education.