To you, what's the bottom of the "elite" colleges?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Penn and Chicago have always been better than poor Columbia. No one thinks of Columbia as elite. Columbia is grouped with Brown, Dartmouth, and Cornell.

+1000😆

[Anonymous]

People think that Columbia is a country. Penn and Chicago have national brands that are recognized by the public and media.

Just when you thought this thread couldn’t get any stupider. Barely a thread goes by, including this page of this thread, where someone doesn’t confuse Penn and Penn State. I’m from PA and had siblings at both — these schools are confused all the time. And Chicago? It’s worse than saying “Boston” and assuming the whole world knows what you mean.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The people in this thread bragging about not having heard about schools like Stanford, Chicago and Northwestern until embarrassingly late is something else, lmao.

NOBODY gave shit about Northwestern then and now. It’s a sexual pervert school.

You have a serious issue and an obsession. No one gives a shit about your mindless ranting.

If you went to that school in Evanston, sit down and be quiet. You don’t have many schools to look down on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The definitive list of elite schools:

Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Stanford
MIT
Penn
Chicago

The near elites:

Duke
Northwestern
Johns Hopkins
Caltech
UC Berkeley

Fake elites:

Columbia
Brown
Dartmouth
Cornell
Vanderbilt
Emory
Notre Dame

I release the shackles Berkeley has on DC.

I like this list!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

People think that Columbia is a country. Penn and Chicago have national brands that are recognized by the public and media.

Just when you thought this thread couldn’t get any stupider. Barely a thread goes by, including this page of this thread, where someone doesn’t confuse Penn and Penn State. I’m from PA and had siblings at both — these schools are confused all the time. And Chicago? It’s worse than saying “Boston” and assuming the whole world knows what you mean.

*now the previous page of this thread

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

People think that Columbia is a country. Penn and Chicago have national brands that are recognized by the public and media.

Just when you thought this thread couldn’t get any stupider. Barely a thread goes by, including this page of this thread, where someone doesn’t confuse Penn and Penn State. I’m from PA and had siblings at both — these schools are confused all the time. And Chicago? It’s worse than saying “Boston” and assuming the whole world knows what you mean.

*now the previous page of this thread

This thread reads like SNL. It can’t be real. Will the true UPenn or Columbia grads please stand? I don’t think there’s a single UPenn or Columbia grads on here. These are all fake posts by DMV fake strivers who went to Podunk universities.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

People think that Columbia is a country. Penn and Chicago have national brands that are recognized by the public and media.

Just when you thought this thread couldn’t get any stupider. Barely a thread goes by, including this page of this thread, where someone doesn’t confuse Penn and Penn State. I’m from PA and had siblings at both — these schools are confused all the time. And Chicago? It’s worse than saying “Boston” and assuming the whole world knows what you mean.

*now the previous page of this thread

This thread reads like SNL. It can’t be real. Will the true UPenn or Columbia grads please stand? I don’t think there’s a single UPenn or Columbia grads on here. These are all fake posts by DMV fake strivers who went to Podunk universities.

It’s the insecure Columbia parents and grads

[Anonymous]

Duke

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

People think that Columbia is a country. Penn and Chicago have national brands that are recognized by the public and media.

Just when you thought this thread couldn’t get any stupider. Barely a thread goes by, including this page of this thread, where someone doesn’t confuse Penn and Penn State. I’m from PA and had siblings at both — these schools are confused all the time. And Chicago? It’s worse than saying “Boston” and assuming the whole world knows what you mean.

*now the previous page of this thread

This thread reads like SNL. It can’t be real. Will the true UPenn or Columbia grads please stand? I don’t think there’s a single UPenn or Columbia grads on here. These are all fake posts by DMV fake strivers who went to Podunk universities.

It’s the insecure Columbia parents and grads

Right about now, Columbia kids are on self-imposed lockdown working feverishly on their final projects and upcoming exams. True Columbia parents are too busy to be coming on here, so quit with your fake posts.

For over 40 pages, I don’t see anyone talking about the great professors they had, amazing projects, semester-abroad they experienced seeing the world, personal classmates who went on to change the world and are now household names... It’s always some generic info they googled they are cutting and pasting.

[Anonymous]

I think there are literally two Northwestern and Chicago mothers on here whose two kids received six figures of financial aid money from the two schools, so they went there instead of UMD, and now they spam this forum all day about how elite they are. Really oozing class and confidence...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think there are literally two Northwestern and Chicago mothers on here whose two kids received six figures of financial aid money from the two schools, so they went there instead of UMD, and now they spam this forum all day about how elite they are. Really oozing class and confidence...

Even if this is not the case, it must be some really insecure poster who bashes Columbia and praises Penn so that their school gets a better standing. You can read the posts and know that they’re trolls.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

For over 40 pages, I don’t see anyone talking about the great professors they had, amazing projects, semester-abroad they experienced seeing the world, personal classmates who went on to change the world and are now household names... It’s always some generic info they googled they are cutting and pasting.

Because almost all of the schools offer semester or year abroad programs. And undergraduate education (not experience) is roughly the same everywhere. The only difference is the perceived value of the name of the school. Certainly the experience, what city you are in, or the physical beauty of a campus, add to value for that student, but it isn't universal.

And....I would argue that a professor at a small, "no name" school is there because they actually want to teach and are passionate about their subject, as opposed to the research universities, where there is so much pressure to publish or perish.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

For over 40 pages, I don’t see anyone talking about the great professors they had, amazing projects, semester-abroad they experienced seeing the world, personal classmates who went on to change the world and are now household names... It’s always some generic info they googled they are cutting and pasting.

Because almost all of the schools offer semester or year abroad programs. And undergraduate education (not experience) is roughly the same everywhere. The only difference is the perceived value of the name of the school. Certainly the experience, what city you are in, or the physical beauty of a campus, add to value for that student, but it isn't universal.

And....I would argue that a professor at a small, "no name" school is there because they actually want to teach and are passionate about their subject, as opposed to the research universities, where there is so much pressure to publish or perish.

I agree with this, and it is what our professor relatives from big research schools advise too. Go to a small college focused on undergraduate teaching, and then if you so choose, pursue a higher degree at a university known for your particular area of study, where you will join the cutting edge research end with a huge dose of grant chasing and academic in-fighting for money and prestige.

[Anonymous]

The definitive list of elite schools:

Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Stanford
MIT
Penn
Chicago

The near elites:

Duke
Northwestern
Johns Hopkins
Caltech
UC Berkeley

Fake elites:

Columbia
Brown
Dartmouth
Cornell
Vanderbilt
Emory
Notre Dame

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

For over 40 pages, I don’t see anyone talking about the great professors they had, amazing projects, semester-abroad they experienced seeing the world, personal classmates who went on to change the world and are now household names... It’s always some generic info they googled they are cutting and pasting.

Because almost all of the schools offer semester or year abroad programs. And undergraduate education (not experience) is roughly the same everywhere. The only difference is the perceived value of the name of the school. Certainly the experience, what city you are in, or the physical beauty of a campus, add to value for that student, but it isn't universal.

And....I would argue that a professor at a small, "no name" school is there because they actually want to teach and are passionate about their subject, as opposed to the research universities, where there is so much pressure to publish or perish.

True UPenn and Columbia alums/parents will tell you about household names that have gone on to change the world we live in. They might have personally known Elon Musk, Warren Buffet, Donald J Trump, Barrack Obama... if they didn’t attend classes together, they would have seen them from many reunions. If not, from orientations, or family days with their kids, grandkids, and their fabulous wives/gfs.