"Ivy"

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Rather than just piling on, OP has a point.

2 of the 3 top schools in the country -Stanford and MIT - are non-Ivies. Stanford has passed Harvard for the tops in the country.

If we get to the lower ivies, we could name twice as many non-Ivy schools at the same level…

Most kids that have been admitted to both will choose to attend harvard. Maybe different this year because of the political situation but too early to say stanford has overtaken harvard. MIT has a better claim to having overtaken harvard.

The choice is made between Harvard and Stanford at the SCEA round (and Stanford wins). Parchment data is a lag and represents less informed applicants who don’t finalize choices in December.

MIT will never overtake Harvard because it is a tech school. Stanford has everything. Great humanities.

Stanford has already overtaken Harvard. It will be more obvious in 10 years. But when it is obvious, 10 years from now, you will realize, in retrospect, that it happened 15-20 years before.

MIT already overtook Harvard as number one. Harvard has drifted too far away from meritocracy.

[Anonymous]

I am thinking more and more that DCUM has been taken over by immigrant striver parents.

This post is a prime example of that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am thinking more and more that DCUM has been taken over by immigrant striver parents.

This post is a prime example of that.

Are you calling yourself an immigrant striver parent?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am thinking more and more that DCUM has been taken over by immigrant striver parents.

This post is a prime example of that.

I see you’re demonizing others as strivers because you’re talentless. You’re weak.

[Anonymous]

I don’t think these are immigration striver parents, I think these are parents of average kids that have to cut down any elite school at any opportunity for sport.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't get why people use "Ivy" to mean highly selective college in a general sense on this board. Is anyone really going to Dartmouth, Cornell or Brown over MIT or Stanford? No. "Ivy" refers to the athletic conference. Not sure why it keeps being used in this weird way.

Mine turned down MIT for Middlebury. She's going to do just fine.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don't get why people use "Ivy" to mean highly selective college in a general sense on this board. Is anyone really going to Dartmouth, Cornell or Brown over MIT or Stanford? No. "Ivy" refers to the athletic conference. Not sure why it keeps being used in this weird way.

Mine turned down MIT for Middlebury. She's going to do just fine.

Athletes don’t count.

[Anonymous]

Someone didn’t have a good decision day and is bitter about Ivies. Stanford and MIT aren’t insecure nor should they be, you’re really outing yourself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't get why people use "Ivy" to mean highly selective college in a general sense on this board. Is anyone really going to Dartmouth, Cornell or Brown over MIT or Stanford? No. "Ivy" refers to the athletic conference. Not sure why it keeps being used in this weird way.

Mine turned down MIT for Middlebury. She's going to do just fine.

Everyone would be “just fine” if they didn’t go to any college. Does it make going to college worthless.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am thinking more and more that DCUM has been taken over by immigrant striver parents.

This post is a prime example of that.

I feel that too.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What kind of stupid post is this?

There are countless kids who are attending Dartmouth or Brown over MIT or Stanford. I have one.

Me too, mine didn’t even apply to those schoolls as had no interest.

While OP is ridiculous, your kid did not "choose" Dartmouth or Brown over MIT or Stanford because your kid was not accepted to one from each group, and therefore your kid wasn't making a choice. A choice would be the kid was offered admission to both and turned MIT or Stanford down for one of the other two.

These schools don’t have +80% yields for nothing. Anecdotes aside, it’s the 80% yield schools - HMS - and then everyone else.

Time to downgrade Yale and its 70% yield…

Having an yield rate +80% for all these schools means very few students got into more than 1 of these schools.