Tell me why Harvard is the best!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: And there are more Fortune 100 CEOs with educations from IVY League institutions than any comparable pool of schools (I am guessing that if they ended up as CEO, they must have been able to do their entry level job pretty effectively and without alienating everyone that they worked with).

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That 100 companies... how about the other 27,000,000

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: And there are more Fortune 100 CEOs with educations from IVY League institutions than any comparable pool of schools (I am guessing that if they ended up as CEO, they must have been able to do their entry level job pretty effectively and without alienating everyone that they worked with).

... Nepotism and family connections playing no part in it at all, oh no!

So, my daughter is valedictorian of her high school class. Because we are middle class, she has qualified for a generous financial aid package that will cover the majority of the cost of sending her to Yale. She was also admitted to UMD as her safety school. The all-in costs of the two are fairly comparable. She is very close to her grandparents and dreams one day of becoming a physician specializing in geriatrics. 95% of all Yale pre-med students get into medical school. Are you suggesting that I should encourage her to go to UMD? Are you out of your gourde?

You don't think she can get into medical school on her own merits.. then go to Yale.

That's hilarious. As if getting into Yale and making it through the premed program isn't her own merits. You're an idiot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: And there are more Fortune 100 CEOs with educations from IVY League institutions than any comparable pool of schools (I am guessing that if they ended up as CEO, they must have been able to do their entry level job pretty effectively and without alienating everyone that they worked with).

.!

That 100 companies... how about the other 27,000,000

I'd like to see a breakdown by school - not all Ivy league institutions are the same or of the same caliber.

[Anonymous]

This is interesting:
http://www.businessinsider.com/top-american-universities-ceos-2013-9#1-harvard-university-12

The 12 schools that produce most Fortune 500 CEO's includes some Ivy League schools (HYC, of course + Cornell and Penn). Also, Stanford, MIT and Chicago. Surprises: USC, SMU, Northwestern and NYU.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is interesting:
http://www.businessinsider.com/top-american-universities-ceos-2013-9#1-harvard-university-12

The 12 schools that produce most Fortune 500 CEO's includes some Ivy League schools (HYC, of course + Cornell and Penn). Also, Stanford, MIT and Chicago. Surprises: USC, SMU, Northwestern and NYU.

NYU doesn't surprise me at all. I've heard heard that, thanks to their location, they have really close connections to Wall Street.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: And there are more Fortune 100 CEOs with educations from IVY League institutions than any comparable pool of schools (I am guessing that if they ended up as CEO, they must have been able to do their entry level job pretty effectively and without alienating everyone that they worked with).

... Nepotism and family connections playing no part in it at all, oh no!

So, my daughter is valedictorian of her high school class. Because we are middle class, she has qualified for a generous financial aid package that will cover the majority of the cost of sending her to Yale. She was also admitted to UMD as her safety school. The all-in costs of the two are fairly comparable. She is very close to her grandparents and dreams one day of becoming a physician specializing in geriatrics. 95% of all Yale pre-med students get into medical school. Are you suggesting that I should encourage her to go to UMD? Are you out of your gourde?

You don't think she can get into medical school on her own merits.. then go to Yale.

That's hilarious. As if getting into Yale and making it through the premed program isn't her own merits. You're an idiot.

+1. The Ivy Envy here is absolutely pathetic. What sad, insecure people some of you must be.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: And there are more Fortune 100 CEOs with educations from IVY League institutions than any comparable pool of schools (I am guessing that if they ended up as CEO, they must have been able to do their entry level job pretty effectively and without alienating everyone that they worked with).

.!

That 100 companies... how about the other 27,000,000

I'd like to see a breakdown by school - not all Ivy league institutions are the same or of the same caliber.

Right, because Cornell, Penn and Brown are simply terrible places to get an education and no Fortune 100 company would come within a mile of their grads.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is interesting:
http://www.businessinsider.com/top-american-universities-ceos-2013-9#1-harvard-university-12

The 12 schools that produce most Fortune 500 CEO's includes some Ivy League schools (HYC, of course + Cornell and Penn). Also, Stanford, MIT and Chicago. Surprises: USC, SMU, Northwestern and NYU.

I'm not sure why anyone would find USC and SMU at all surprising, along with many state universities and the military academies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: And there are more Fortune 100 CEOs with educations from IVY League institutions than any comparable pool of schools (I am guessing that if they ended up as CEO, they must have been able to do their entry level job pretty effectively and without alienating everyone that they worked with).

... Nepotism and family connections playing no part in it at all, oh no!

So, my daughter is valedictorian of her high school class. Because we are middle class, she has qualified for a generous financial aid package that will cover the majority of the cost of sending her to Yale. She was also admitted to UMD as her safety school. The all-in costs of the two are fairly comparable. She is very close to her grandparents and dreams one day of becoming a physician specializing in geriatrics. 95% of all Yale pre-med students get into medical school. Are you suggesting that I should encourage her to go to UMD? Are you out of your gourde?

I realize that you think about your daughter's "difficult dilemma" all the time and are very proud of her, but how did you make the association between an aspiring physician and nepotism in F100 corporations?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: And there are more Fortune 100 CEOs with educations from IVY League institutions than any comparable pool of schools (I am guessing that if they ended up as CEO, they must have been able to do their entry level job pretty effectively and without alienating everyone that they worked with).

... Nepotism and family connections playing no part in it at all, oh no!

So, my daughter is valedictorian of her high school class. Because we are middle class, she has qualified for a generous financial aid package that will cover the majority of the cost of sending her to Yale. She was also admitted to UMD as her safety school. The all-in costs of the two are fairly comparable. She is very close to her grandparents and dreams one day of becoming a physician specializing in geriatrics. 95% of all Yale pre-med students get into medical school. Are you suggesting that I should encourage her to go to UMD? Are you out of your gourde?

You don't think she can get into medical school on her own merits.. then go to Yale.

That's hilarious. As if getting into Yale and making it through the premed program isn't her own merits. You're an idiot.

+1. The Ivy Envy here is absolutely pathetic. What sad, insecure people some of you must be.

You argument is ad hominem.. The fact is if she is getting into med school on merit she is getting into med school from either school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is interesting:
http://www.businessinsider.com/top-american-universities-ceos-2013-9#1-harvard-university-12

The 12 schools that produce most Fortune 500 CEO's includes some Ivy League schools (HYC, of course + Cornell and Penn). Also, Stanford, MIT and Chicago. Surprises: USC, SMU, Northwestern and NYU.

How about stats on who starts the company?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is interesting:
http://www.businessinsider.com/top-american-universities-ceos-2013-9#1-harvard-university-12

The 12 schools that produce most Fortune 500 CEO's includes some Ivy League schools (HYC, of course + Cornell and Penn). Also, Stanford, MIT and Chicago. Surprises: USC, SMU, Northwestern and NYU.

Geography is more important than athletic conference. Most of the 12 schools are located in major economic centers - NYC, LA, Silicon Valley, Chicago, Boston. Philly. Yale and Cornell are the outliers, but arguably near the NY area.

[Anonymous]

Why is the measure here always what will land a job with a Fortune 500 company. Very few people I know would want to work in such a place. There's nothing wrong with it, I just can't imagine judging a college by this.

What about most graduate degrees and university/college teaching jobs? What about research grants? What about Pullitzer Prizes? I could go on and on, and all of these examples are far more appealing to me than working at a Fortune 500 company.

[Anonymous]

Because of all the graduate students teaching the undergrad courses. For 60K, your kid deserves newbies only.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why is the measure here always what will land a job with a Fortune 500 company. Very few people I know would want to work in such a place. There's nothing wrong with it, I just can't imagine judging a college by this.

What about most graduate degrees and university/college teaching jobs? What about research grants? What about Pullitzer Prizes? I could go on and on, and all of these examples are far more appealing to me than working at a Fortune 500 company.

I agree with this 100%. I am so much more impressed by people who have used their good education to do something creative or beneficial to the world over becoming a banker or a lawyer.