How HYP students and alum feel about the other Ivies

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Anonymous wrote:My BFF went to Harvard. Never tells new people, never thinks about it unless there's a reunion. Does not spend her time comparing to other ivy grads. Its just not on their radar.

Its only on the radar of DCUM parents who are strivers.

Clearly, you have not been exposed to many Harvard grads.

NP here, but I have adult friends who went to Harvard and I only know this because I googled them. I'm not sure who you are hanging out with, but they sound like losers.

Who googles their adult friends? They don’t sound like your actual friends.

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You do know that not everyone who gets admitted to HYP is there because they are exceptional? People get in for all reasons and they know it.

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Anonymous wrote:I see my “peers” as specific individuals. I don’t assume that someone who attended a school in the same sports league as my undergrad school has more in common with me than someone who did not.

I did wince though, when someone who attended Cornell made a comment about “we of the Ivy League”.

Having said that, add Stanford to the list of peer schools.

OMG. Why are all Cornell graduates like this? It's very weird and awkward.

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Anonymous wrote:At Wharton we didn’t consider ourselves to have any outside college peers.

What about MIT? Your school's most alum is really proud of his family association with that school.

We hire them but they are not our peers.

They’re smarter

Salary says otherwise

I see someone didn’t get an Ivy degree for the education. What the hell does that have to do with intelligence?

At Wharton we really don’t care about the Ivy League. If you have a better measure of intelligence than compensation, let us know.

I would stay very far from someone who thinks both this is agood measurement and that it's a measurement that matters, iI don't care if you were the president of the world or went to NVCC.
- Went to P'ton

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Anonymous wrote:At Wharton we didn’t consider ourselves to have any outside college peers.

What about MIT? Your school's most alum is really proud of his family association with that school.

Who is the the most famous alum from wharton?

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Anonymous wrote:At Wharton we didn’t consider ourselves to have any outside college peers.

What about MIT? Your school's most alum is really proud of his family association with that school.

Who is the the most famous alum from wharton?

Hey Donald Trump is a fantastic alum! He defaces higher ed at every turn, but you know...Wharton brains

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Went to Harvard. Anyone who gets into any of these schools these days is impressive to me.- way harder now

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Anonymous wrote:The only pretentious people I meet are MIT grads, outside the Ivy League but boy do they think they’re the smartest people no matter what. You can’t bring them back to civilization if you tried

That's because it's true! I mean, there's Cal Tech, but still . . .

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Anonymous wrote:The only pretentious people I meet are MIT grads, outside the Ivy League but boy do they think they’re the smartest people no matter what. You can’t bring them back to civilization if you tried

That's because it's true! I mean, there's Cal Tech, but still . . .

Quite a few MIT grads were mediocre students and not that intelligent. Now MIT PhDs I will not touch.

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Anonymous wrote:At Wharton we didn’t consider ourselves to have any outside college peers.

What about MIT? Your school's most alum is really proud of his family association with that school.

We hire them but they are not our peers.

They’re smarter

Salary says otherwise

I see someone didn’t get an Ivy degree for the education. What the hell does that have to do with intelligence?

At Wharton we really don’t care about the Ivy League. If you have a better measure of intelligence than compensation, let us know.

Maybe something like "Value added to society"? But that's another thread.

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Anonymous wrote:Who cares

This. Can't believe there's 4 pages on this!

[Anonymous]

Different double Yale couple here. We went to grad school at another Ivy. We would jokingly say the following but there’s truth in it:

-Princeton: we are superior to them but secretly worry that they are smarter, richer and probably had more fun than we did

-Harvard: weird try-hards who don’t have any fun and think they’re so great

-Dartmouth: a little jealous they’re still having more fun than us but relieved that we didn’t have to be in the snow the whole time

-Columbia: always forget about them. Their colors are the best.

-Cornell: there’s too many of them to stereotype but they all carry a sort of sad and desperate vibe

-Penn: used to be the back door to the Ivy League and we used to comfort ourselves that Philly was worse than New Haven. Now Penn and Philly both seem pretty appealing. Wide variety of people there and a cool place.

-Brown: spoiled rich kids who are oblivious to the world around them and their relative privilege, and I’m talking about both the alumni I know and current students

-MIT- book smarter and more Asian than us (and DH and I are very smart and very Asian) but otherwise kind of weird and forgettable

-Stanford- want everyone to believe they are the very smartest, but we remember when Stanford was as easy to get into as Cornell or Penn, and we also know way too much about their admissions standards for athletes

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Anonymous wrote:At Wharton we didn’t consider ourselves to have any outside college peers.

What about MIT? Your school's most alum is really proud of his family association with that school.

We hire them but they are not our peers.

They’re smarter

Salary says otherwise

I see someone didn’t get an Ivy degree for the education. What the hell does that have to do with intelligence?

At Wharton we really don’t care about the Ivy League. If you have a better measure of intelligence than compensation, let us know.

Beautiful. Kind of summaries Wharton students.

As a grown up, the Wharton people in real life tend to be pretty horrible people. There is something about them.

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Anonymous wrote:My BFF went to Harvard. Never tells new people, never thinks about it unless there's a reunion. Does not spend her time comparing to other ivy grads. Its just not on their radar.

Its only on the radar of DCUM parents who are strivers.

Clearly, you have not been exposed to many Harvard grads.

Are you even capable of basic reading skills?

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Anonymous wrote:Different double Yale couple here. We went to grad school at another Ivy. We would jokingly say the following but there’s truth in it:

-Princeton: we are superior to them but secretly worry that they are smarter, richer and probably had more fun than we did

-Harvard: weird try-hards who don’t have any fun and think they’re so great

-Dartmouth: a little jealous they’re still having more fun than us but relieved that we didn’t have to be in the snow the whole time

-Columbia: always forget about them. Their colors are the best.

-Cornell: there’s too many of them to stereotype but they all carry a sort of sad and desperate vibe

-Penn: used to be the back door to the Ivy League and we used to comfort ourselves that Philly was worse than New Haven. Now Penn and Philly both seem pretty appealing. Wide variety of people there and a cool place.

-Brown: spoiled rich kids who are oblivious to the world around them and their relative privilege, and I’m talking about both the alumni I know and current students

-MIT- book smarter and more Asian than us (and DH and I are very smart and very Asian) but otherwise kind of weird and forgettable

-Stanford- want everyone to believe they are the very smartest, but we remember when Stanford was as easy to get into as Cornell or Penn, and we also know way too much about their admissions standards for athletes

Wow. You are effed up with some outdated stereotypes.

It’s 2024, honey.