How HYP students and alum feel about the other Ivies

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Anonymous wrote:At Wharton we didn’t consider ourselves to have any outside college peers.

What about MIT? Your school's most alum is really proud of his family association with that school.

We hire them but they are not our peers.

They’re smarter

Salary says otherwise

I see someone didn’t get an Ivy degree for the education. What the hell does that have to do with intelligence?

At Wharton we really don’t care about the Ivy League. If you have a better measure of intelligence than compensation, let us know.

Maybe something like "Value added to society"? But that's another thread.

100% on the first part of this

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Anonymous wrote:People here are no fun. The one yale couple's post was funny, not everything has to be so serious, my god.

It’s nice to know people with equally lame senses of humor have found a home.

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Anonymous wrote:I went to an "HYP" (no one who graduates from these schools seriously uses this term IRL) and work at arguably the top firm in a very prestige-minded industry in New York City. The schools that I would consider "peers", give or take, are the rest of the Ivy League, Stanford, Chicago, Duke, Northwestern, and maybe Berkeley. This is based off of decades in my field and working with and collaborating with a large cross-section of individuals with varying educational pedigrees.

But to be absolutely clear, there are smart people everywhere. And after a certain point, sheer competence and experience matter infinitely more than pedigree.

Every graduate of "HYP" knows you don't use two prepositions side by side. An adequate word to use instead of those two, would have been "on" as in "based on".

So you're a charlatan.

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I went to Harvard. I was incredibly snobbish about this when I was younger.

I'm 45 now, and I don't care where you went to school. I actively avoid people around my age who are still caught up in that desperate pretentiousness. It sickens me.

I don't tell anyone I went to Harvard anymore, either. If asked, I quickly say Boston College and move on. If I'm ever called out on this, I'll say I said "college in Boston" and was misunderstood. (Even saying "college in Boston" is pretentious as hell because we all know what that means).

I'm old, jaded, and over it.

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Anonymous wrote:I went to an "HYP" (no one who graduates from these schools seriously uses this term IRL) and work at arguably the top firm in a very prestige-minded industry in New York City. The schools that I would consider "peers", give or take, are the rest of the Ivy League, Stanford, Chicago, Duke, Northwestern, and maybe Berkeley. This is based off of decades in my field and working with and collaborating with a large cross-section of individuals with varying educational pedigrees.

But to be absolutely clear, there are smart people everywhere. And after a certain point, sheer competence and experience matter infinitely more than pedigree.

No MIT? In private equity (assuming you are too), with our incredible bias towards prestige, we have:

Tier 1a: Harvard, Wharton
Tier 1b: Princeton, Yale, Dartmouth, Duke, MIT, Stanford, Columbia
Tier 2a: Dyson, Ross, Stern, Chicago, Northwestern, Georgetown
Tier 2b: Brown, Vanderbilt, Notre Dame, Haas

Dartmouth has dropped off considerably. I'd put them down at 2b.

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Anonymous wrote:I went to an "HYP" (no one who graduates from these schools seriously uses this term IRL) and work at arguably the top firm in a very prestige-minded industry in New York City. The schools that I would consider "peers", give or take, are the rest of the Ivy League, Stanford, Chicago, Duke, Northwestern, and maybe Berkeley. This is based off of decades in my field and working with and collaborating with a large cross-section of individuals with varying educational pedigrees.

But to be absolutely clear, there are smart people everywhere. And after a certain point, sheer competence and experience matter infinitely more than pedigree.

Every graduate of "HYP" knows you don't use two prepositions side by side. An adequate word to use instead of those two, would have been "on" as in "based on".

So you're a charlatan.

Hahahahaha OK

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Anonymous wrote:Different double Yale couple here. We went to grad school at another Ivy. We would jokingly say the following but there’s truth in it:

-Princeton: we are superior to them but secretly worry that they are smarter, richer and probably had more fun than we did

-Harvard: weird try-hards who don’t have any fun and think they’re so great

-Dartmouth: a little jealous they’re still having more fun than us but relieved that we didn’t have to be in the snow the whole time

-Columbia: always forget about them. Their colors are the best.

-Cornell: there’s too many of them to stereotype but they all carry a sort of sad and desperate vibe

-Penn: used to be the back door to the Ivy League and we used to comfort ourselves that Philly was worse than New Haven. Now Penn and Philly both seem pretty appealing. Wide variety of people there and a cool place.

-Brown: spoiled rich kids who are oblivious to the world around them and their relative privilege, and I’m talking about both the alumni I know and current students

-MIT- book smarter and more Asian than us (and DH and I are very smart and very Asian) but otherwise kind of weird and forgettable

-Stanford- want everyone to believe they are the very smartest, but we remember when Stanford was as easy to get into as Cornell or Penn, and we also know way too much about their admissions standards for athletes

This is so cringe, and it doesn’t even align with stereotypes that have some basis in reality.

It does suggest there are some weird-ass Asian Yale graduates out there, though.

Sorry you’re jealous! Get into Yale and then you can offer your own perception from your point of view.

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Anonymous wrote:I went to an "HYP" (no one who graduates from these schools seriously uses this term IRL) and work at arguably the top firm in a very prestige-minded industry in New York City. The schools that I would consider "peers", give or take, are the rest of the Ivy League, Stanford, Chicago, Duke, Northwestern, and maybe Berkeley. This is based off of decades in my field and working with and collaborating with a large cross-section of individuals with varying educational pedigrees.

But to be absolutely clear, there are smart people everywhere. And after a certain point, sheer competence and experience matter infinitely more than pedigree.

No MIT? In private equity (assuming you are too), with our incredible bias towards prestige, we have:

Tier 1a: Harvard, Wharton
Tier 1b: Princeton, Yale, Dartmouth, Duke, MIT, Stanford, Columbia
Tier 2a: Dyson, Ross, Stern, Chicago, Northwestern, Georgetown
Tier 2b: Brown, Vanderbilt, Notre Dame, Haas

Dartmouth has dropped off considerably. I'd put them down at 2b.

Definitely not 2b, at worst 2a. A lot of PE leadership is still Dartmouth undergrads

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Anonymous wrote:I went to an "HYP" (no one who graduates from these schools seriously uses this term IRL) and work at arguably the top firm in a very prestige-minded industry in New York City. The schools that I would consider "peers", give or take, are the rest of the Ivy League, Stanford, Chicago, Duke, Northwestern, and maybe Berkeley. This is based off of decades in my field and working with and collaborating with a large cross-section of individuals with varying educational pedigrees.

But to be absolutely clear, there are smart people everywhere. And after a certain point, sheer competence and experience matter infinitely more than pedigree.

No MIT? In private equity (assuming you are too), with our incredible bias towards prestige, we have:

Tier 1a: Harvard, Wharton
Tier 1b: Princeton, Yale, Dartmouth, Duke, MIT, Stanford, Columbia
Tier 2a: Dyson, Ross, Stern, Chicago, Northwestern, Georgetown
Tier 2b: Brown, Vanderbilt, Notre Dame, Haas

Dartmouth has dropped off considerably. I'd put them down at 2b.

Definitely not 2b, at worst 2a. A lot of PE leadership is still Dartmouth undergrads

Says a lot about the 3 of you, the time you took to create and debate this nonsensical list that favors your own biases.

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Anonymous wrote:People here are no fun. The one yale couple's post was funny, not everything has to be so serious, my god.

We see you, "Yale couple." And, we love good comedy. That post ain't it.

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Anonymous wrote:At Wharton we didn’t consider ourselves to have any outside college peers.

No real Ivy offers an undergraduate business major. At Harvard, Yale and Columbia the business schools are exclusively devoted to graduate level education.

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Anonymous wrote:At Wharton we didn’t consider ourselves to have any outside college peers.

No real Ivy offers an undergraduate business major. At Harvard, Yale and Columbia the business schools are exclusively devoted to graduate level education.

Wharton is also the #1 MBA program. Those other ones are not peers there either.

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You can definitely find that type but there are also normal folks who don't care or roll their eyes at the prestigious BS.

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Anonymous wrote:At Wharton we didn’t consider ourselves to have any outside college peers.

No real Ivy offers an undergraduate business major. At Harvard, Yale and Columbia the business schools are exclusively devoted to graduate level education.

Wharton is also the #1 MBA program. Those other ones are not peers there either.

This doesn't contradict my point.

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Also the fact that Wharton grads always mention their school rather than the university itself speaks volumes. They feel a need to distinguish themselves from Penn for some reason. Very un-Ivy like.