What schools are better than the lower Ivies?

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Anonymous wrote:None. Ivy carries prestige that sticks with you for life. "He went to an Ivy League school." People are impressed, forever.

Who are these people? Because I am not impressed one bit. It's not what I value.

Yes you are and yes you do. Why did you click on this post containing the word "Ivies?" You're interested and you care. It carries clout; it's exceedingly difficult to get in and anyone who does is exceptional in some way.

I click on all the college threads. I literally don't care about the Ivies. I have better priorities!

You may click on all of them...but you obviously aren't posting on those threads.

This thread is already one of the most popular on the 1st page of DCUM and only 1 day old...so, you an claim you aren't impressed and don't care, but your actions say otherwise.

Kate Middleton's bad photoshop pic thread also got started yesterday and is 126 pages long vs. this thread with 6 pages.

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Anonymous wrote:Parents of kids who can't get into Ivies. Ivy is Ivy. Any IVY before non-Ivy other than MIT, Stanford, and Cal Tech.

This arrogance funny considering it’s Caltech, *one* word.

It is a tell when people write Cal Tech or CalTech. You might as well write Mass Tech and people should understand you have limited knowledge on the subject.

Nobody cares about C.I.T.

We are the C.I.T.s so pity us
The kids are brats, the food is hideous…

Anyone?

Meatballs!

“Hey you, on the waterskis!”

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Anonymous wrote:Parents of kids who can't get into Ivies. Ivy is Ivy. Any IVY before non-Ivy other than MIT, Stanford, and Cal Tech.

This arrogance funny considering it’s Caltech, *one* word.

It is a tell when people write Cal Tech or CalTech. You might as well write Mass Tech and people should understand you have limited knowledge on the subject.

Nobody cares about C.I.T.

We are the C.I.T.s so pity us
The kids are brats, the food is hideous…

Anyone?

Meatballs!

“Hey you, on the waterskis!”

Thank you! Thirty-something years later, I still can’t hear “CIT,” in any context, without hearing this ear-worm.

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Anonymous wrote:Some of the SLACs.

Is that a joke? I hope so.

I don't favor SLACs, but their pedagogical strengths cannot be beat.

Thank you.

What a kick ass post.

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Anonymous wrote:Parents of kids who can't get into Ivies. Ivy is Ivy. Any IVY before non-Ivy other than MIT, Stanford, and Cal Tech.

LOL. Pretty sure Duke straight up wins the overall cross-admit battle with half the ivies by a sizable margin, meaning kids (and their parents) are preferring Duke over ivies when given the choice. Chicago also does decently against at least the lower ivies. You sound like someone who went to Cornell haha

DP. That's ridiculous. You have zero stats to back that up. Duke's yield rate is lower than all the Ivies'. People don't like Duke as much as you do.

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Anonymous wrote:Parents of kids who can't get into Ivies. Ivy is Ivy. Any IVY before non-Ivy other than MIT, Stanford, and Cal Tech.

LOL. Pretty sure Duke straight up wins the overall cross-admit battle with half the ivies by a sizable margin, meaning kids (and their parents) are preferring Duke over ivies when given the choice. Chicago also does decently against at least the lower ivies. You sound like someone who went to Cornell haha

DP. That's ridiculous. You have zero stats to back that up. Duke's yield rate is lower than all the Ivies'. People don't like Duke as much as you do.

NP. I believe Duke’s yield is *slightly* lower because they take way less kids through ED - only ~40%. All the ivies take 50%+ through ED. Also it’s well documented that Duke beats the lower ivies and is about even with Penn and Columbia for cross-admits during regular decision. Just Google it.

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Parchment has Duke vs Ivy as follows for cross-admits:
Harvard 76% to Duke 24%
Princeton 73% to Duke 27%
Columbia 73% to Duke 27%
Brown 71% to Duke 29%
Yale 57% to Duke 43%
Penn 54% to Duke 46% (I wonder what Wharton vs. Duke is)
Dartmouth 47% to Duke 53%
Cornell 20% to Duke 80%

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Anonymous wrote:Notre Dame

Disagree

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Anonymous wrote:Some of the SLACs.

Is that a joke? I hope so.

I don't favor SLACs, but their pedagogical strengths cannot be beat.

Thank you.

What a kick ass post.

Sarcasm or Agreement?

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Anonymous wrote:Parents of kids who can't get into Ivies. Ivy is Ivy. Any IVY before non-Ivy other than MIT, Stanford, and Cal Tech.

This arrogance funny considering it’s Caltech, *one* word.

It is a tell when people write Cal Tech or CalTech. You might as well write Mass Tech and people should understand you have limited knowledge on the subject.

Nobody cares about C.I.T.

We are the C.I.T.s so pity us
The kids are brats, the food is hideous…

Anyone?

Meatballs!

“Hey you, on the waterskis!”

Thank you! Thirty-something years later, I still can’t hear “CIT,” in any context, without hearing this ear-worm.

Wudy da wabbit!

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Anonymous wrote:Parchment has Duke vs Ivy as follows for cross-admits:
Harvard 76% to Duke 24%
Princeton 73% to Duke 27%
Columbia 73% to Duke 27%
Brown 71% to Duke 29%
Yale 57% to Duke 43%
Penn 54% to Duke 46% (I wonder what Wharton vs. Duke is)
Dartmouth 47% to Duke 53%
Cornell 20% to Duke 80%

Parchment is extremely flawed. Pretty confident Duke beats Brown in cross-admits, and that Duke beats Dartmouth by a larger margin. Also pretty confident Yale beats Duke by a larger margin than 57-43. Lastly, Columbia-Duke are fairly similar to Penn-Duke, all three of those schools go 60-40 or 50-50 with each other

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Anonymous wrote:Parchment has Duke vs Ivy as follows for cross-admits:
Harvard 76% to Duke 24%
Princeton 73% to Duke 27%
Columbia 73% to Duke 27%
Brown 71% to Duke 29%
Yale 57% to Duke 43%
Penn 54% to Duke 46% (I wonder what Wharton vs. Duke is)
Dartmouth 47% to Duke 53%
Cornell 20% to Duke 80%

Parchment is extremely flawed. Pretty confident Duke beats Brown in cross-admits, and that Duke beats Dartmouth by a larger margin. Also pretty confident Yale beats Duke by a larger margin than 57-43. Lastly, Columbia-Duke are fairly similar to Penn-Duke, all three of those schools go 60-40 or 50-50 with each other

Parchment claims to have real data from their transcript business. Who has real data?

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Anonymous wrote:When will these insipid threads end?

When people like you don't respond and keep them going.

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Anonymous wrote:CMU for engineering, cs, drama and undergrad business

I wouldn't put it above Yale for drama, but I'd prefer it to all of the other Ivies.

Yale drama is graduate only. CMU actually has a ton of successful, famous working actors, writers and producers for stage, screen and TV.

If you google famous CMU grads working in all creative capacities, it is fairly impressive.

Don't need to Google this, lol.

Sorry...other than two or three writers/actors, most of us aren't a repository of CMU grads working in entertainment.

Yale drama is more well-known because in nearly every article about somebody like Paul Giamatti or Sigourney Weaver or another famous actor, they mention they attended Yale drama.

I have never seen it mentioned in an article that Ethan Hawke or Ted Danson went to CMU.

Another person believing their misinformed understanding defines the general understanding.

Here's a long list of CMY drama successes. You'll know most of these names, or their work. Extremely impressive for what is generally considered one of the most competitive fields in the country.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_Mellon_School_of_Drama

No actually...you did a google/Internet search for it, which was my point.

You didn't just list off 10+ names off the top of your head.

So, you are another person not actually understanding the responses...then actually proving the point of the person you think you are maligning.

No, fool, you are wrong.

I knew about it since I was in High School and the show Hill Street Blues made me want to work in television. I read all about it, and there were many newspaper and magazine articles about how Stephen Bocho led a whole army of CMU people on many shows, including his wife who starred in the show. That's how I knew that back in the 80s. Didn't apply there because I thought Syracuse Newhouse was better for me because I wanted to work behind the camera...

BTW, even though we've just shown what you claim is false, what would it matter if it were true? If you want to work in a field, and an unusual number of successful people come from that school, and it is known in the industry... why does it matter what the layman knows? So stupid. And let me tell you about the "Newhouse Mafia" and how much that matters in television and sports broadcasting, even though you never heard of that either.

It takes a severe level of cognitive dissonance to be presented with empirical evidence of a fact and claim that it somehow shows the opposite.

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Anonymous wrote:CMU for engineering, cs, drama and undergrad business

I wouldn't put it above Yale for drama, but I'd prefer it to all of the other Ivies.

Yale drama is graduate only. CMU actually has a ton of successful, famous working actors, writers and producers for stage, screen and TV.

If you google famous CMU grads working in all creative capacities, it is fairly impressive.

Don't need to Google this, lol.

Sorry...other than two or three writers/actors, most of us aren't a repository of CMU grads working in entertainment.

Yale drama is more well-known because in nearly every article about somebody like Paul Giamatti or Sigourney Weaver or another famous actor, they mention they attended Yale drama.

I have never seen it mentioned in an article that Ethan Hawke or Ted Danson went to CMU.

Another person believing their misinformed understanding defines the general understanding.

Here's a long list of CMY drama successes. You'll know most of these names, or their work. Extremely impressive for what is generally considered one of the most competitive fields in the country.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_Mellon_School_of_Drama

No actually...you did a google/Internet search for it, which was my point.

You didn't just list off 10+ names off the top of your head.

So, you are another person not actually understanding the responses...then actually proving the point of the person you think you are maligning.

No, fool, you are wrong.

I knew about it since I was in High School and the show Hill Street Blues made me want to work in television. I read all about it, and there were many newspaper and magazine articles about how Stephen Bocho led a whole army of CMU people on many shows, including his wife who starred in the show. That's how I knew that back in the 80s. Didn't apply there because I thought Syracuse Newhouse was better for me because I wanted to work behind the camera...

BTW, even though we've just shown what you claim is false, what would it matter if it were true? If you want to work in a field, and an unusual number of successful people come from that school, and it is known in the industry... why does it matter what the layman knows? So stupid. And let me tell you about the "Newhouse Mafia" and how much that matters in television and sports broadcasting, even though you never heard of that either.

It takes a severe level of cognitive dissonance to be presented with empirical evidence of a fact and claim that it somehow shows the opposite.

You mentioned one graduate. You are now wildly unhinged and don’t even understand the context of the thread.

Sorry…for whatever reason all the famous Yale grads always have that mentioned in general writeups…but the CMU grads don’t get that level of attention.

Nobody is refuting that if you do a google search (which 99.9% of people on DCUM must do) you will see many recognizable names.