Why Such Snobbery Against State Universities on These Fora?
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Anonymous
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Anonymous
DC is primarily populated by northeastern transplants. The northeast doesn't really have any prestigious in-state schools so they are pretty accustomed to paying $$$ to send their kids out of state. In Virginia it is much less common to go out of state because of the relatively cheap options of W&M and UVA, which none of the northeastern states have an instate equivalent of. I think this mindset leads a lot of north easterners to automatically look down their noses at state schools in general. You do not find this attitude in the handful of states that have strong state colleges. |
Anonymous
Uh, nope. http://time.com/money/4364104/top-colleges-fortune-500-ceos/ |
Anonymous
Northeasterner here. I think there is snobbery against going to one’s own state’s school, but schools like Michigan and Wisconsin are extraordinarily popular and desirable among the wealthy east coast crowd... |
Anonymous
Ditto. I'm from CA and people do not look down on going to a UC. Some, however, look down on going to a Cal State U even though there are some Cal States that are harder to get into than some UCs. |
Anonymous
Northeasterner here. I think there is snobbery against going to one’s own state’s school, but schools like Michigan and Wisconsin are extraordinarily popular and desirable among the wealthy east coast crowd... |
Anonymous
Idiotic article from somebody who has never had statistics in their life. They should have normalized the same size based on the number of graduates from these schools, but what can you expect from a dumb white chick who went to University of Florida |
Anonymous
Ok, so then if you have other evidence that you need to go to “a handful of schools” to be a .01%er/“Run this country” - share it. Otherwise you’re just talking out of your ass. |
Anonymous
Learn to google idiot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_universities_by_number_of_billionaire_alumni. Here are the top 10. See the trend. Just one state school Top Billionaire producing Universities Harvard University – 131 degrees, combined wealth $529 billion Stanford University – 50 degrees, combined wealth $339 billion University of Pennsylvania – 47 degrees, combined wealth $247 billion Columbia University – 38 degrees, combined wealth $218 billion Massachusetts Institute of Technology – 26 degrees, combined wealth $158 billion University of California Berkeley – 19 degrees, combined wealth $83 billion Cornell University – 23 degrees, combined wealth $57 billion University of Southern California – 22 degrees, combined wealth $51 billion University of Chicago – 28 degrees, combined wealth $49 billion Yale University – 21 degrees, combined wealth $99 billion Top 20 Ultra High net worth (80% here are Private schools, and not a single state school in the top 10) Harvard University – 16,316 alumni, combined wealth $3,238 billion University of Pennsylvania – 6,993 alumni, combined wealth $1,328 billion Columbia University – 4,945 alumni, combined wealth $1,067 billion New York University – 3,870 alumni, combined wealth $697 billion Stanford University – 3,724 alumni, combined wealth $978 billion University of Cambridge – 3,708 alumni, combined wealth $586 billion Massachusetts Institute of Technology – 3,291 alumni, combined wealth $727 billion Northwestern University – 2,902 alumni, combined wealth $384 billion University of Chicago – 2,850 alumni, combined wealth $431 billion Yale University – 2,667 alumni, combined wealth $552 billion Cornell University – 2,661 alumni, combined wealth $482 billion University of Southern California – 2,590 alumni, combined wealth $497 billion Princeton University – 2,576 alumni, combined wealth $574 billion University of California, Berkeley – 2,500 alumni, combined wealth $512 billion Boston University – 2,219 alumni, combined wealth $408 billion University of Michigan – 2,105 alumni, combined wealth $437 billion University of Texas at Austin – 2,061 alumni, combined wealth $346 billion University of Virginia – 2,035 alumni, combined wealth $258 billion University of Notre Dame – 1,863 alumni, combined wealth $253 billion University of California, Los Angeles – 1,728 alumni, combined wealth $299 billion This is before normalization based on student population. Even without that Private universities produce 3x to 4x time what state universities produce. If you normalize for student body population, State universities will virtually disappear. |
Anonymous
| What you’re missing, PP, is the number of people at those private schools with generational wealth and connections. You’re not necessarily going to achieve that level of wealth solely from going to those schools. You’d have to exclude people who benefit from generational wealth in order to isolate and measure the impact of going to those schools in future earnings. |
Anonymous
In order for this to be a remotely interesting statistical exercise, you need to remove all of those who are part of this due to generational wealth. Attending Yale isn't going to get my kid a multi-billion-dollar trust fund no matter what. |
Anonymous
| I went to Harvard and it has never asked me my net worth, so would assume 11:35 has some flaws in calculations. |
Anonymous
Both you and the other poster are missing the point. The point is even if what you say is true, the point is that the wealthy don't go to the state schools with the plebes. Don't you get it? That is precisely my point. But that is moot because you are wrong. Here is the data on the "generational wealth vs self made ratio for some of these schools 1 Harvard University Self made percentage is 78% 2 University of Pennsylvania 72% 3 Columbia University 75% 4 New York University 72% 5 Stanford University 76% 6 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77% 7 University of Chicago 82% 8 Northwestern University 72% 9 Yale University 74% 10 Princeton University 75% Most of these folks made their wealth by themselves. I know this runs counter to the leftist class warfare nonsense, but it is what it is |
Anonymous
Wrong. Most of these guys made their money themselves, did not inherit it from their parents here are the stats 1 Harvard University Self made percentage is 78% 2 University of Pennsylvania 72% 3 Columbia University 75% 4 New York University 72% 5 Stanford University 76% 6 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77% 7 University of Chicago 82% 8 Northwestern University 72% 9 Yale University 74% 10 Princeton University 75% |
Anonymous
It is so sad that a fellow alum is so clueless. "Harvard did not ask me my net worth, so the data is flawed" |