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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP: I am puzzled by your ignorance about college education in the US.

The non-Ivy top ten schools like MIT, Stanford, Duke, and U of Chicago can provide better education and are as (or more) difficult to get in than some of the Ivies. I went to MIT and my sister attended Stanford - and we never even applied to an Ivy because both of us thought that these schools were a better fit for us. Luckily, we had parents who trusted us and cared about quality education! [/quote]

You clearly didn't get the OP.

Her kid most likely applied to Chicago, but had a shot at SCEA schools which include Standard and MIT.[/quote]

That’s not how OP framed it. It was Ivy versus a non-ivy 10-ten school. At any rate, Chicago is as good as Stanford in my book. [/quote]

Based purely on raw stereotypes that probably aren't fair, a University of Chicago degree is really more impressive than a Harvard degree.

My gut reaction is that a lot of Harvard students are either like Dr. Smith on Lost in Space, or rich kids who are good at rowing boats, and that just about all University of Chicago students are genuinely brilliant, down-to-earth, hard-working people.

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