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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You guys aren't getting it. It's the expectations you develop for yourself and what your life will be like that matters long after you graduate. Yes, you work hard, are challenged academically. But that's not all. You learn how people from more successful backgrounds think and act. How smarter and academically more accomplished people think and act. You change. 
--small town girl from MC high school[/quote]
But not everyone is a small town girl from a MC high school. All those people you met at an Ivy, they went to high school somewhere. For people who already met them in high school, what’s the benefit of the Ivy?[/quote]

You haven't met the professors in your high school now have you? Any Nobel laureates taught your high school classes?

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Oh absolutely from first hand. Steven Weinberg hated teaching andvtold usxstraight up if it snowed he wasn't showing up. But hearing him describe his WORK, hearing the change in tone and the passion..raised the bar.

DP but my non-Ivy school had TWO Nobel Laureates (one of whom taught classes while I was there). Did you know that there is zero correlation between winning a Nobel and being a good teacher?[/quote][/quote]

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