Harvard, Princeton or Yale?

[Anonymous]

12:50 - ITA - that's what I did. Had terrific undergrad profs from the Ivies who didn't have to obsess over constantly publishing so they had time to mentor us, unlike what I'd hear in grad school from my undergrad Ivy colleagues.

[Anonymous]

In addition to the "Supremes" -- don't forget about the First Lady going to PU

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Um, have fun at your PUBLIC high school with lots of friends for life and fun memories, take lots of AP classes and get fives on the exams, enter a well-regarded state university as a second-year student and THEN try to save your $$$ for graduate study at an Ivy. Those with four-year undergraduate degrees simply don't get hired straight out of school like they used to in the 90s!

Your occupational emphasis is based on a very narrow concept of education and is contrary to the educational philosophy of liberal-arts colleges like the Ivys.

[Anonymous]

Well, I want my DC to have a job to go to after graduation...I am infinitely practical. A person can certainly be educated yet unemployable. P.S. Plural would be "Ivies" BTW.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well, I want my DC to have a job to go to after graduation...I am infinitely practical. A person can certainly be educated yet unemployable. P.S. Plural would be "Ivies" BTW.

Vocational school should do it.

[Anonymous]

Yes indeed

[Anonymous]

The answer is Harvard.

[Anonymous]

The answer is this question is ridiculous. These are the top-3 ranked universities in the country. It is really splitting hairs to even care which of the 3 is better or more elite.

[Anonymous]

Yes, true. They are equal. But some (Harvard) or more equal than others...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The answer is this question is ridiculous. These are the top-3 ranked universities in the country. It is really splitting hairs to even care which of the 3 is better or more elite.

OP's question was not which is better or more elite; the question was which would you choose.

Harvard.

[Anonymous]

Harvard. But only to enjoy the Boston weather.

[Anonymous]

I second....Rutgers!

[Anonymous]

I couldn't get into any of them -- so I didn't even try to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Harvard was much more intellectual and there was a stronger work ethic.

Princeton felt like a rich kids' school; Harvard felt like a smart, ambitious kids' school.

Beyond ethos, at a more strictly academic level, I think that the emphasis on undergrads lead to lowered standards. And, in some cases, a kind of lackey attitude on the part of certain faculty members (wow, look at the social status of the people whose kids I'm teaching! These are the future elite and I'm lucky to have their ear at this impressionable stage.)

Apparently, someone forgot to tell Samuel Alito, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan that Princeton was a rich kids' school where those with a strong work ethic would be out of place.

I think both Sotomayor and Michelle Obama have commented on rich kids' school culture of Princeton. Alito and Kagan were school teachers' kids -- I'm betting they came to Princeton with their intellectual values/work ethic already formed and it helped them stand out from the crowd.

[Anonymous]

Umm...they got big financial breaks to go to PU -- so I don't think they're going to bite the hand that feeds them pp...don't make stuff up.