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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No, I'm suggesting that students that may get into both Princeton and Harvard may, despite Princeton having a better undergraduate education, choose Harvard in part due to having proximity to MIT and the wider Boston area.

The idea of location preference is not a crazy one.[/quote]

Let's help you out again; per the OP "[b]Did not apply to Harvard[/b], Yale, Brown or Dartmouth. Waitlisted at UPenn."

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Let's help you out again: The argument is regarding isolated suburban colleges and non-isolated urban colleges. Do I need to connect the dots for you or are you a big enough girl to get it now?[/quote]

Such a shame you can't articulate your argument either clearly or consistently.  You aren't helping yourself, much less the OP. [/quote]
My position has been rather clear and consistent, however at some point the conversation needs to be at a high-school level, not a kindergarten one as you might prefer. [/quote]

Do you enjoy being a kid?

Who do you think has better "networking" or whatever it is you're imagining, urban Northeastern or St. John's or Fordham, versus rural Dartmouth and Williams and suburban Princeton and Duke?

Shrugs. [/quote]

DP. I don't think you understand college. College kids don't "network." Like, did you imagine them metroing over to the nearest investment bank, knocking on the door, and joining up for happy hour? lol[/quote]
Erm, college kids do network. That's partially the purpose of business fraternities, engineering fraternities, regular fraternities and other social and academic organizations.

And in environments where there are multiple colleges nearby, similar college organizations from various schools will set up events together (beyond parties).

PP I don't think you realize the ambitiousness of college students these days. Mediocre college students perhaps don't network and perhaps spend the entirety of college smoking weed in their dorms.

Ambitious, go-getter types do. And college networking does not consist of going to happy hour (even networking in the job market does not consist of going to happy hour lmao).[/quote]

Let me rephrase my criticism of the PP. I should have stated, college students don't engage in the type of networking that gets them jobs. The reason I know this is that I am a college professor.[/quote]

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