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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What a great troll thread. The people I know at Ivy’s love it there. Very driven though. [/quote]

I do find the pre-professionalism vs. intellectualism at these types of schools jarring though.  THere ARE still people who want to read literature and write poetry and study philosophy and who want to get lost in the library for hours, and who maybe, just maybe, aren't going to be extroverts and leaders, who are maybe a little insecure.  In previous generations, we recognized the contributions that eccentric people made, even those who maybe weren't completely presentable in mainstream society.  (MIT used to be full of these people.)  Every year there seem to be fewer and fewer of these types of people at top schools and more and more vapid careerists.  Something is definitely being lost.  I wonder what kinds of letters of recommendation someone like Marie Curie or Albert Einstein might have had written about himself at the age of 17.  I can just picture the admissions committee shredding someone like that and instead deciding to take another person who wants to be an investment banker.  I worry about the lack of critical thought that many of these extroverts display.  The comment above is a case in point.[/quote]

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