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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm gonna chime in here as a voice of reason and suggest that anyone who feels compelled to match these schools against each other just to flesh out which one is on top and which ones are on the bottom, is both obnoxious and has a fuzzy understanding of what's really important. [/quote]

I'm the OP, and I feel as though I must defend myself.  I thought the sarcasm in my original post was almost too obvious, but clearly I was wrong.

I often see people here posting that their child is at, heading to, recruited by, accepted but declined the offer, graduated from or a legacy at a "Top Ivy".  Sometimes it is capitalized like this TOP IVY so we don't miss it (unless TOP IVY is actually an acronym for some agency I'm not cool enough to know about).  I have not conducted a statistical analysis but I swear I see this far more frequently than I see people either naming a specific school, or just saying Ivy.  I figure this is due to one of the following possibilities:

1) All these posts come from the same person

2) There are top and bottom ivies, but the people at the latter clearly don't care enough about their kids to post on DCUM*

3) People whose kids go to (insert names of bottom ivies here) are so ashamed that they don't admit it on DCUM

4) Admissions reps at (insert names of bottom ivies here) are in cahoots with Jeff and reject anyone whose mother posts on this site*

5) Everyone who says that is lying

In reality, I couldn't care less which Ivies are the best.  I'm hoping my kid picks a nice, cheap, state school.

* I have marked my use of sarcasm to make it crystal clear this time.  [/quote]

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