Why Your Brilliant Child Didn't Get Into The Ivies

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I just gotta know, which are the Top Ivies? While you're at it, maybe you could give me complete rankings - with citations of course.

The top 2 are Harvard and Yale, by any ranking you choose. The middle are open for debate, but Brown and Dartmouth are ranked by most people at the bottom.

You just have to love this stuff on DCMUM Baord....."ranking" the Ivies into the top tier v the bottom tier.....So PP says "Brown" is at the bottom? Right.....well...let's not have Janet Yellen (soon to be Fed Chairman...alum of Brown) find out she went to a "bottom" tier school....! How ridiiculous is this stuff?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just gotta know, which are the Top Ivies? While you're at it, maybe you could give me complete rankings - with citations of course.

The top 2 are Harvard and Yale, by any ranking you choose. The middle are open for debate, but Brown and Dartmouth are ranked by most people at the bottom.

You just have to love this stuff on DCMUM Baord....."ranking" the Ivies into the top tier v the bottom tier.....So PP says "Brown" is at the bottom? Right.....well...let's not have Janet Yellen (soon to be Fed Chairman...alum of Brown) find out she went to a "bottom" tier school....! How ridiiculous is this stuff?

I guess you went to Brown?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just gotta know, which are the Top Ivies? While you're at it, maybe you could give me complete rankings - with citations of course.

I'm the PP who posted this and I'm flabbergasted that posters were at the ready with responses. Obviously I am incredibly naive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just gotta know, which are the Top Ivies? While you're at it, maybe you could give me complete rankings - with citations of course.

I'm the PP who posted this and I'm flabbergasted that posters were at the ready with responses. Obviously I am incredibly naive.

If you are the one developing a list of "bottom"Ivies...then one could say you are incredibly naive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just gotta know, which are the Top Ivies? While you're at it, maybe you could give me complete rankings - with citations of course.

I'm the PP who posted this and I'm flabbergasted that posters were at the ready with responses. Obviously I am incredibly naive.

If you are the one developing a list of "bottom"Ivies...then one could say you are incredibly naive.

Wow. I am trapped in the land of Poe's.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law

[Anonymous]

This discussion is exactly why this site should be for DC residents. These people "of the farm" don't have a clue. HYP with MIT and S are in a league of their own. Columbia Dartmouth and UPenn are argubly the next tier. Brown is at the bottom and if it possible to be lower than Brown, Cornell wins the prize.

Even satire shows like Family Guy and the Simpson get it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF0k18ahjlY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc5vN2XReWs
http://download.lardlad.com/sounds/season10/getana11.mp3

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This discussion is exactly why this site should be for DC residents. These people "of the farm" don't have a clue. HYP with MIT and S are in a league of their own. Columbia Dartmouth and UPenn are argubly the next tier. Brown is at the bottom and if it possible to be lower than Brown, Cornell wins the prize.

Even satire shows like Family Guy and the Simpson get it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF0k18ahjlY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc5vN2XReWs
http://download.lardlad.com/sounds/season10/getana11.mp3

Yes, we don't want people on this site who are unsophisticated and can't rank their ivies properly.

Barf.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Top Ivies: Harvard, Princeton and Yale
Middle Ivies: UPenn, Dartmouth, Columbia
Bottom Tier: Brown and Cornell

You have tiers since not all ivies are equal. HYP are equal in prestige to MIT and Stanford but the other schools -- Lesser Ivie are not.

We should take advice from someone who can't spell Ivy?

[Anonymous]

PP here. The rankings are all based on perception.

[Anonymous]

Folks, stop fighting. Your kids aren't getting into the Ivys/Ivies anyway.

[Anonymous]

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This discussion is exactly why this site should be for DC residents. These people "of the farm" don't have a clue. HYP with MIT and S are in a league of their own. Columbia Dartmouth and UPenn are argubly the next tier. Brown is at the bottom and if it possible to be lower than Brown, Cornell wins the prize.

Even satire shows like Family Guy and the Simpson get it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF0k18ahjlY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc5vN2XReWs
http://download.lardlad.com/sounds/season10/getana11.mp3

Poe, Poe, Poe, Poe, Poe.

[Anonymous]

Per US News, it's

Princeton
Harvard
Yale
Columbia
Penn
Dartmouth
Brown
Cornell

Probably the only thing people familiar with the Ivies would agree upon is that Brown and Cornell are the lesser Ivies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I agree with PP -- Let's not hide the fact that Ivy does not guarantee success. Let's also agree that it does provide access and opportunity. Do you seriously think the Barrack Obama would have reached the presidency without his Columbia and Harvard Law degrees? Not likely! What if he had gone to the University of Hawaii and UC-Davis Law. First, he would not have had the access to the Ivy League network. Second, he would not have had the brand or credibility that comes with a top Ivy League degree. Let's be honest, some of his comments during 2008 were just as outrageous as those made by Sarah Palin but he got a pass because of his Ivy League degrees and Sarah Palin did not because she went to a state school. You could make another argument using President Bush.

This is a stupid argument. Indulge in too much Thanksgiving wine, PP?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Per US News, it's

Princeton
Harvard
Yale
Columbia
Penn
Dartmouth
Brown
Cornell

Probably the only thing people familiar with the Ivies would agree upon is that Brown and Cornell are the lesser Ivies.

Ha ha ha. Tell that to the thousands of kids who got rejected from Brown this year! I'd say Penn, Columbia and Cornell are the lesser Ivies. Brown is outrageously popular.