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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Harvard, Princeton, and Penn are the only ivies that are well known internationally.  Yale is a maybe.  Outside that, the others are unknown.[/quote]

God- you are dumb.  All 8 Ivies are very well-known internationally.  I am European and there is a frenzy to get into an Ivy.  Look at tennis rosters, soccer rosters, squash, etc…filled with Europeans at all 8 Ivies.  It’s a business over there. [/quote]

Over 1/3 of Brown’s students are International. [/quote]

To reply to you and another PP, you have to get it into your thick heads that the international families dying to get their kids into top-rated US universities are, what, 0.000 000 000 008% of the world population. Yes, in some Asian countries like South Korea it IS a business. But as usual, DCUM is short on math skills, and those families represent a minuscule fraction of middle and upper class people around the world. But you imagine everyone wants in, because the only foreigners you see are the people who attend these institutions, or who go to great lengths to be accepted.

There are many more wealthy and educated families WHO HAVE NEVER HEARD of any US uni, and who don't care, and whose kids will make their money anyway without attending such institutions. You should care about that, because it means that your American values, as represented by the classic American college experience, don't percolate in many European, Asian, Middle East, and African circles. People elect politicians who will partner or fight with the US without the benefit of much knowledge about how we work as a nation.

For your own good and that of your children in this country, stop thinking that everyone knows about the US, its colleges, or is dying to emulate Americans and come here.

And you'd be advised to learn a little more about their countries and their values. This is how you stop making costly mistakes as you try to continue being the world's policeman.

The myopia and hubris on this site is mind-boggling.

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