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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All of the ivies are equally horrible for education. Go to a school like Reed, U Chicago, Swarthmore, Amherst, Williams, Middlebury, Pomona etc. to find people who are actually there to learn and not jumpstart their iBanking career. [/quote]

How silly.  These are good schools, but most of their students would be at an Ivy tomorrow if they could get in. [/quote]

Completely untrue. My kids have lots of friends who have turned down ivies for all of these schools.[/quote]

No they don't.  No one chooses Swarthmore over Princeton.  Get real.   :roll: [/quote]

I would imagine that there are plenty of ivy admits who were also accepted elsewhere w full scholarships, and they find themselves in the position of choosing full pay (loans, if their parents can't cover it) for an ivy vs full-ride at a lower tier school. In that case, I could understand choosing a different school. Frank Bruni (NYTimes) has been on a book tour and discussed how he made that same choice (full ride over Yale, I think). So I imagine it happens.[/quote]

Ivies are among the most generous with need based aid, so this is bogus.  It's a nice way for ivy rejects to save face, but seriously, everyone who gets in chooses princeton over swarthmore.[/quote]

I'd put it slightly differently.  There are some people who are interested in Swarthmore, but not Princeton.  They want something quieter and less preppy.

But people who do apply to both schools and get in will almost always go with Princeton.   [/quote]

Again, this isn't true. There are people who'd choose Swarthmore over Princeton, Harvey Mudd over Stanford, Williams over Harvard, etc. I know this because I have met these kids.

Not everyone solely makes decisions on the name. I want to see your source for 100% of the people who get into Swarthmore and Princeton go to Princeton. Even Parchment's data has 1/3 choosing Swarthmore. [/quote]

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