Why do you want your child to go to a "top" college?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

By and large, I prefer a top product to a bottom or middle or the road product. That's simply how I am wired. It's really that simple.

[quote]The higher priced products are usually not the best products. That is simply how it works.

Logic 101:

Duh, the poster said "top product" not "higher priced products". There is no reference to price or cost but "top" quality. Please read critically. Your logic would earn a very low SAT (CR) score and likely loss of an opportunity to attend a top Ivy.



The best product is rarely the top product no matter how you define top.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I had a great time at Amherst and was taught by Professors and made great life long friends. I know it is not the best institution (thank God) but it may just above middling as frats and beer parties were the rage. I'm sure you won't find this behavior at those top/best schools like Harvard, Stanford and MIT.

This is the problem. Clueless. Harvard? Are you kidding? Harvard has/had the most coke of any school except maybe the U.

[Anonymous]

I think the PP above was being sarcastic...pointing out that boozing happens everywhere, smart kids or not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I had a great time at Amherst and was taught by Professors and made great life long friends. I know it is not the best institution (thank God) but it may just above middling as frats and beer parties were the rage. I'm sure you won't find this behavior at those top/best schools like Harvard, Stanford and MIT.

This is the problem. Clueless. Harvard? Are you kidding? Harvard has/had the most coke of any school except maybe the U.

so do I need to send my child to brigham young or liberty to reduce the incidence of substance abuse in schoolmates?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I had a great time at Amherst and was taught by Professors and made great life long friends. I know it is not the best institution (thank God) but it may just above middling as frats and beer parties were the rage. I'm sure you won't find this behavior at those top/best schools like Harvard, Stanford and MIT.

This is the problem. Clueless. Harvard? Are you kidding? Harvard has/had the most coke of any school except maybe the U.

so do I need to send my child to brigham young or liberty to reduce the incidence of substance abuse in schoolmates?

No. Teach your kids to pick their friend carefully. Make good choices. Study hard. Don't judge somebody based on their SAT score. If you believe that kids are more serious in "top" school, kids with a huge safety net, you are flat out wrong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I had a great time at Amherst and was taught by Professors and made great life long friends. I know it is not the best institution (thank God) but it may just above middling as frats and beer parties were the rage. I'm sure you won't find this behavior at those top/best schools like Harvard, Stanford and MIT.

This is the problem. Clueless. Harvard? Are you kidding? Harvard has/had the most coke of any school except maybe the U.

so do I need to send my child to brigham young or liberty to reduce the incidence of substance abuse in schoolmates?

No. Teach your kids to pick their friend carefully. Make good choices. Study hard. Don't judge somebody based on their SAT score. If you believe that kids are more serious in "top" school, kids with a huge safety net, you are flat out wrong.

Biggest take-away: don't trust posters who think Harvard is the coke capital of anything, or that kids at elite schools like Stanford, MIT, Yale, Columbia are not "serious" and these are merely party schools for rich kids... Or something. Such posters have an outdated view of elite colleges based on the entrance requirements of the 1950s.

[Anonymous]

People party everywhere. You can party and still be serious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People party everywhere. You can party and still be serious.

21:14 again. I agree. At the top colleges they play hard and study hard. Lots of the kids are pretty intense....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

No. Teach your kids to pick their friend carefully. Make good choices. Study hard. Don't judge somebody based on their SAT score. If you believe that kids are more serious in "top" school, kids with a huge safety net, you are flat out wrong.

Who are you people? Why are you commenting on something you clearly have no experience with?

You're the one who is flat out wrong. Kids are serious and not so serious everywhere. It does take academic chops to get into the "top" schools, however, and you can flunk out of all of them (except maybe Harvard).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I had a great time at Amherst and was taught by Professors and made great life long friends. I know it is not the best institution (thank God) but it may just above middling as frats and beer parties were the rage. I'm sure you won't find this behavior at those top/best schools like Harvard, Stanford and MIT.

This is the problem. Clueless. Harvard? Are you kidding? Harvard has/had the most coke of any school except maybe the U.

so do I need to send my child to brigham young or liberty to reduce the incidence of substance abuse in schoolmates?

No. Teach your kids to pick their friend carefully. Make good choices. Study hard. Don't judge somebody based on their SAT score. If you believe that kids are more serious in "top" school, kids with a huge safety net, you are flat out wrong.

Biggest take-away: don't trust posters who think Harvard is the coke capital of anything, or that kids at elite schools like Stanford, MIT, Yale, Columbia are not "serious" and these are merely party schools for rich kids... Or something. Such posters have an outdated view of elite colleges based on the entrance requirements of the 1950s.

The lady doth protest too much.

[Anonymous]

High achieving people party. Serious students party. He'll, my father's Big Law lawfirm parties were coke-filled bacchanalias in the '80s. Where are people getting the idea that serious students/high achieving people don't drink and party?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:High achieving people party. Serious students party. He'll, my father's Big Law lawfirm parties were coke-filled bacchanalias in the '80s. Where are people getting the idea that serious students/high achieving people don't drink and party?

Of course high achieving people party. The issue is the posters claiming that students at top schools do nothing but party. Ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:High achieving people party. Serious students party. He'll, my father's Big Law lawfirm parties were coke-filled bacchanalias in the '80s. Where are people getting the idea that serious students/high achieving people don't drink and party?

Of course high achieving people party. The issue is the posters claiming that students at top schools do nothing but party. Ridiculous.

No the claim was that going to a "top" school would avoid the middling because they party too much.

[Anonymous]

yeah, yeah, that's right!! I went to an Ivy and I am a total loser, and so is everyone else in my class! Don't know how they got those amazing jobs (cause I didn't!) including that pres Obama guy, yeah ivy school sucks. an ever body there use drugs

[Anonymous]

Obama went to Occidental College after HS, which shows it's really not that important exactly where you go right out of HS.