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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Say what you will. [b]It is common knowledge that the networking and job opportunities upon graduation from an Ivy are[u] unparallelled[/u].[/b]

I think it's easy for a lot of us whose own kids will not be Ivy candidates to sit here and say in our more self righteous tone that let him choose, it's his life, etc...but come on people getting into an Ivy is  big deal. I will be the first to tell you if it was my son, I would do everything in my power to at least encourage him to try it. If after the first year he is miserable then let him go where he wants to.

You see a phenomenal opportunity that COULD mean great things for your child, it is natural to want that for them. Nothing wrong with it whatsoever in my estimation.[/quote]

PP who has one kid at Stanford and another at Wash U.  I respectfully disagree with the bolded part. Also please keep in mind [b]that all Ivies are not the same.  But that's fine - we can agree to disagree[/b]. [/quote]

Agree (not op) however if we are taking Harvard Yale or Princeton I DO agree with that statement 100%. Cornell, Brown, Dartmouth not so much. My own D attended one of these and the opportunities afforded to her were simply astounding.[/quote]

I have a good friend who went to Harvard who says she would be crushed if her DS *wanted* to go to Harvard[b]. She thnks it was not a great good place to go to undergrad and doesnt believe the networking and prestige factors make up for that.[/quote][/b]

Very hard to believe, sorry. Just don't buy that one bit, in fact it sounds downright ridiculous.[/quote]

Me neither, and I (not my "good friend") went to Harvard.[/quote]

My Harvard friend sits in the office between a person who went to UVA and a person who went to Delaware, so I'm pretty sure I believe her when she says she didn't really get an advantage in networking and prestige, LOL.

What is ridiculous is believing that Harvard is always the best place for anyone who is offered a spot.[/quote]

I'd always understood that Harvard was inferior to Princeton, Yale and many SLACs in terms of the undergraduate experience, as opposed to the graduate programs and professional schools.  I don't find it surprising at all that some graduates would discourage their children from applying there as undergraduates.[/quote]

I've heard the same, so often that it surprises me anyone would find it hard to believe. Hell, even the Fiske guide alludes to it.[/quote]

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