Clearly, according to WSJ, everyone in America is well-off enough to afford a 60-70k college tuition annually. |
Brown is at #6. Probably because all the hedge fund managers sent their kids there. |
Brown is literally the poorest Ivy school |
Lol |
Which school did I bash? I responded to a bashing. |
I'd personally choose Penn A&S over Columbia College any day |
The best schools in America have always been private. Get over that. |
They are not the biggest engines for fueling the America Dream. Public universities educate far more first generation, veterans, African Americans, Latinos … Also public’s are actually top ranked in many specialty and STEM fields. Get with that! ![]() |
There is a reason Brown is #6–outstanding academics (better than most of the other Ivys) and kids love it there. |
Kids also love kindergarten, and summer camp, and ice cream shops. Outstanding academics better than most of the other Ivies? Please get a grip of reality. Brown is a joke when it comes to actual academic prowess. |
It's a list for asset-rich families with education trusts, where the kids are educated at expensive private schools from pre-school through graduate school. This list is appealing to a certain class of families.
Literally, the list is meant to assuage rich people that they made the right choices for their kids by overpaying for USC, Wash U, Vandy, Duke, and JHU liberal arts and "business" degrees. |
Ok. No one cares. |
+1. More like a Forbes ranking but measures “value-added” for the rich. |
Except it's pretty 'numbers-based' in terms of looking at salary outcomes--so it's not like it's subjective criteria. The way the bias seeps in though is that wealthier people are more likely to send their kids to private schools and they are also more likely to have the connections/wherewithal to set their kids up well for careers. They do try to balance this a bit in their methodology (e.g. ROI takes into account cost of attendance), but it still comes through. |
Maybe except for Duke, most of these schools have pretty mediocre career outcomes. The wealthy thrive on connections and financial security. But for those on financial aid or lower middle class families, going to these overpriced schools don’t really add much value to their career prospects as opposed to going to a public school... |