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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I taught at a couple Ivies, Wash U., and another peer school.  If their kids got into Stanford, MIT, or Caltech then DCUM snobs hate the Ivies.  If their kid barely got into one Ivy, then they hate Northwestern.  If their kid got into Northwestern or Chicago, then they hate Wash. U.  [b]They don't want to share status.[/b]

USNews rates some Ivies as low as #15.  The next private National Universities are Rice, Notre Dame, Vanderbilt, Carnegie Mellon, Wash U., Emory, Georgetown, USC, NYU.  So Wash. U. is solidly in the second 15 schools.  Georgetown has great placement in finance and probably State Department, but Wash. U. has better STEM and a suburban campus.[/quote]

Totally agree, but it begs the question why the status accrues in the first place. As you said, some Ivies consistently rank below non-Ivy schools. What say the Ivy hounds? There’s higher and lower Ivy.

What’s really being prioritized by “Ivy” is smarts [b]and[/b] ADHD-level ambition. Not everyone who attends an Ivy is like this, but those who standout, do.

It’s not that ambition itself is bad, but pathological ambition [b]is[/b] bad because it routinely runs over people and institutions and leaves society with the fallout/consequences. [/quote]

What is "ADHD-level ambition"?  :shock: 
New terms poping up every day ...[/quote]

It’s been a gross day on here, that one and “grinders on the spectrum.”

I understand it’s easier on the ego to think like this for some, but it’s just gross.[/quote]

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