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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP and everyone else who refuses to accept that the Ivy League is tiered is one, a moron, and two, never attended an Ivy League school. Those who did know where they and their respective schools are in the pecking order. Read quote below from Ted Cruz and then go back and view clips from Family Guy and the Simpsons, which were written by Ivy League graduates.

"As a law student at Harvard, he refused to study with anyone who hadn’t been an undergrad at Harvard, Princeton, or Yale. Says Damon Watson, one of Cruz’s law-school roommates: “He said he didn’t want anybody from ‘minor Ivies’ like Penn or Brown.”"
[/quote]The writers from the comedy shows are humorist.  Mr. Cruz is a blowhard making such a pretentious statement about the intellect of other students.  I don't think any reasonable person would acknowledge them as a source for educational planning for college.[/quote]

Ha.  I remember not being invited to those study groups as a non-Ivy grad.  I still made law review and got the  clerkships that the study group guys (and they were mostly guys) coveted.  So there.[/quote]

I don't think the argument is that one can't succeed if one attends a non-Ivy or lower-Ivy. We all know that one can. The argument is that the perception exists that the Ivy Leagues is tiered. Certain schools fall into the top tier, others into a middle tier and others into a bottom tier. The perception exists in the minds of those affiliated with an Ivy League institution and the media, which is supported by a few examples above. I am sure that if you look at hard data, such as yield rates, or ask the admissions officers at each school who their direct competition is, you could probably find support for the above argument. In the end, it is all mute. The large majority of kids (99%) would jump at the opportunity to attend any Ivy League school.  [/quote]

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