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Anonymous wrote:Maybe my experience is dated, but I am very surprised at how little credit people give to "brand name" schools, especially if you are studying something not specifically job oriented. I was a liberal arts major at Brown in the 80's, and went to Yale Law in the early 90's, and those names alone have opened many doors for me.

Obviously it does you no good if you go to Penn undergrad, spend all that money, and then jerk around for four years. But if you do well, you are way ahead of the game.

ok. i'm not one of those ostrich types - I fully tell people how it is about names opening doors but you fucking have YLS on your resume.

you could've gone to Podunk for UG but YLS is gold, especially in this town. not sure how many doors brown opened for you because I know a number of underemployed brown alums.

YLS will always open doors. Brown - eh maybe.

You may be right that at this stage YLS is what carries the weight. But being a straight A student at Brown was one of the major things that got me into YLS in the first place.

your lsat did more to get you into yls.

a straight a student from psu with a 178 lsat has a way better chance at yls than a straight a student at brown with a 168 lsat.

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Anonymous wrote:My parents spent for the College of Arts & Sciences at Penn, and I'd do it for my kid if he had a prayer of getting in. To the PP who claims I must be either a jerk or an HYP reject: I don't know about the former, but I didn't apply to HYP. I applied to Penn on a whim and went there b/c I didn't get into my first choice (this was a hundred years ago, before 27k people were applying.) I never took a class at Wharton, but I owe a very successful career to the opportunity Penn gave me to get out of my small-town box.

Penn 'college' (ie. arts & sciences) HYP-reject jerk here... I make more than both of my Wharton roommates

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Anonymous wrote:Decades ago, Penn was a bottom feeder Ivy in a post apocalyptic part of Philly. Things have changed. A spruced up area and much better rankings.

Very true. 30 years ago, a lot of the Penn freshman still imagined themselves at Harvard, Princeton or Yale. No longer. Penn is an excellent and highly selective school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My parents spent for the College of Arts & Sciences at Penn, and I'd do it for my kid if he had a prayer of getting in. To the PP who claims I must be either a jerk or an HYP reject: I don't know about the former, but I didn't apply to HYP. I applied to Penn on a whim and went there b/c I didn't get into my first choice (this was a hundred years ago, before 27k people were applying.) I never took a class at Wharton, but I owe a very successful career to the opportunity Penn gave me to get out of my small-town box.

Penn 'college' (ie. arts & sciences) HYP-reject jerk here... I make more than both of my Wharton roommates

Cool story, bro.

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So...back on topic. Those guys on page 1 who said that Ivy Day is the 27th are wrong. It's the 31st this year.