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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I faced that choice in 2000. I had a choice between UC Berkeley and Columbia for physics. Both were outstanding and both gave me full ride. I visited both colleges with my parents and we both fell in love with Berkeley. The weather helped too because I was an international student from an extremely hot country and for whatever reason I felt like it was going to be cool living in California

No regrets. If I had gone to school in the US perhaps I would have chosen Columbia because I feel like prestige when it comes to colleges has a much bigger weight than in my country at least.

I doubt 18 years old are as obsessed with Ivys as their parents are especially since people getting into ivys also get into other great on Ivys. But then [b]you have parents so obsessed with prestige and coming up with all.kond of BS reasons to sway their kids into chosing an Ivy[/b]. Now if I had gotten into Princeton I would have gone there because its the mecca of Elementary particles.

I was rejected from Princeton and Caltech.

I was accepted by Stony Brook as well and really really really lol loved Stony Brook. I had a classmate who was admitted to Cornell and Stony Brook and told me his order of preference was Berkeley, Stony Brook and Cornell.

Frankly you can't go wrong with any university ranked 1-20 in the US. This is just my opinion, but I am not sure how we can say someone who chose a schooled ranked 20th (never mind those weird rankings) over a school say ranked 3rd in physics for example is making such a bad choice that his head needs to be examined.

Maybe people in the social sciences are more obsessed with prestige? I am just trying to make sense of this thread because for Math, Physics for example the choice ivy vs non ivy isn't even up for debate. You need to look at many criteria and get "Ivy" out your damn head. [/quote]

Often it’s the parents, not the kids. And especially parents who don’t feel secure about their own accomplishments or position in the pecking order. I see this a lot in 1st-gen immigrants (my own community) and in the work place when middle-management people see HBS/wharton grads come in at age 27 and make more than they do at 47, the latter are the guys who become obsessed with pushing their own kids into Ivies. [/quote]

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