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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I went to East Flyover State U and ended up in a top professional school with lots of ivy grads. They were okay-everyone in the class was pretty smart but they were not smarter than the non ivy students at all. They were more coddled (and much richer) on average but there were of course exceptions. [/quote]

I’ve had the same experience.  [/quote]

Sour grapes [/quote]

I do think people who didn’t go, or get into, ivies are a bit sour, but not in the way that you think.  I think people are sour because, especially if they graduated from a top five or ten public, they feel like they were better trained but society still sees them as a notch below Ivy League grads who benefit from societal presuppositions about Ivy schools.   And, as Forbes point out, employers are starting to catch on to that.  The problem with  private schools is that they rely too much on donors.  As such, they can’t totally go too hard on their students.  Public schools will flunk you, and that builds character and puts a little chip on students’ shoulders.  Privates are afraid to flunk their students. [/quote]

Omg. NOT.  They expel, suspend and flunk them all of the time if they are up to snuff. Where do you people come up with your theories?

Ted Turner billionaire founder of CNN and TBS was asked to leave Brown during his senior year. Apparently Turner, who was studying economics was suspended twice. One of those times was for getting caught with a girl in his room.

Robert Smigel of SNL originally went to Cornell for Dentistry but knew he never really wanted to be a Dentist. He said in one interview that he failed so badly at pre-Dentistry classes that his parents felt sorry for him and let him transfer to NYU to study communications. [/quote]

Turner's expulsion happened like 60 years ago and had nothing to do with academics.[/quote]

My kid knows 3 that were expelled/suspended at her Ivy this year.[/quote]
for getting a bad grade?[/quote]

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