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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why is it that the only thing that matters to DCUM folks is if a school sends its graduates to Ivy League schools?? So, the rest of the educational experience doesn’t matter? Sports, arts, music, languages, making lasting friendships, learning responsibility and respect? Does anyone think that the environment at Thomas Jefferson is a wonderful one, then, since they send so many kids to Ivy League schools? Get over yourselves. [/quote]

Because there are people who work in industries like consulting, law and Government in which "credentials" have an out-sized importance. They can't imagine not having them. And the social circles they travel in reinforce this.

Lehigh, for example, is a much better Engineering school than Princeton, as is Georgia Tech. But, that difference is not understood or appreciated by the Ivy-obsessed. [/quote]

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!  Lehigh better than Princeton in engineering?  Nice try.

US World News ranks Leigh #61.  Princeton #17 (Harvard’s even lower for engineering), Georgia Tech at #4.

You can dispute the precise rankings, but Lehigh is nowhere close to Princeton.

The majority of students do not attend engineering school. Most will to go on to graduate school.

Sorry, but Princeton, Harvard, Yale and similarly elite schools open more doors than Lehigh. Even within the Ivies, a Yale degree is worth more than a U Penn degree.

Thanks for the laugh!  [/quote]

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