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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I suspect this is a frequent poster on multiple sites .If so, she attended Columbia.

Every kid is different. Every Ivy is different. Years ago, Howard Greene wrote a book in which he included a survey of students at 20 top  schools. One question was "Are your classmates cut  throat?" Nobody at Wesleyan said yes.  One half of one per cent of Brown students did. The highest percentage of yeses was at Johns Hopkins. (I forget the exact number but it was the vast majority.) The book was written 30 plus years ago, but the point is that all of these schools have different personalities. What is true about Columbia may not be true about Dartmouth or Harvard or Brown.
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It would be interesting to repeat that survey today. I’d wager that the numbers have increased substantially. Look at the number of apps and the acceptance rates. Look at the test scores. Look at the lawsuits. The Ivy League is no longer a club, it’s a grinder’s and striver’s paradise. [/quote]

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