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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think even given the current climate/protests, Columbia is an Ivy [b]and you don’t turn down an Ivy.[/b] My second choice would be Rice. I loved Rice when I visited. Amherst is too small and too remote for me.[/quote]

I hope that you are kidding, but know that you are not.

[b]Really depends upon one's major and upon one's other options.[/b]

Stanford, MIT, Caltech, about a dozen schools of engineering, Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, specialty schools (all female, military,drama, music, etc.) = are all good reasons to turn down an Ivu League offer.[/quote]

I meant you don’t turn down an Ivy for Amherst or Rice. Not that I wouldn’t turn down an Ivy for Stanford or MIT (because in that case I would turn down the Ivy bc I think Stanford and MIT are better).[/quote]

Why? Simply because it’s an Ivy. That would show a lack of critical thinking.[/quote]

Because, as has been stated in this thread, of the alumni network/the connections post graduation. Like it or not, being an Ivy grad will open more doors for you than being an Amherst or Rice grad.[/quote]

Is there any data to show that or is this pure conjecture?[/quote]

Of course it's pure conjecture. Some people are obsessed with the Ivy League. I'm pretty sure even Notre Dame and Michigan offer a more useful network than Columbia.[b] I'm also pretty confident being a Rice and Amherst grad is going to open more doors going forward than graduating from Columbia[i].  [/quote]

It’s ironic you call the PP “pure conjecture” and then offer your own pure conjecture. 😂 [/quote]

Not PP, but it sounds more like an opinion to me than “your own pure conjecture”[/quote]

Conjecture: an opinion [based on incomplete information.][/quote]

The other post was a statement of f fact.  That’s the difference [/quote]

Which post in the thread above is a “statement of fact?”[/quote]

The one about the ivies with much better network and outcomes [/quote]

That was the point I was arguing in the first place so apparently you and I are on the same page and something got mixed up somewhere upthread.[/quote]

Very confusing since you don’t know who’s posting what and who’s responding to what [/quote]

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